Hire-Purchase Act, 1972
(4) Contents of hire purchase
agreement.-
(1) Every hire-purchase agreement shall state-
(a) The hire-purchase
price of the goods to which the agreement relates,
(b) The cash price of
the goods, that is to say, the price at which the goods may be purchased by the
hirer for cash,
(c) The date on which
the agreement shall be deemed to have commenced.
(d) the number of
installments by which the hire-purchase price is to be paid, the amount of each
of those installments, and the date, or the mode of determining the date, upon
which it is payable, and the person to whom and the place where it is payable
and
(e) the goods to which
the agreement relates, in a manner sufficient to identity them.
(2) Where any part of the hire-purchase price
is, or is to be, paid otherwise than in cash or by cheque, the hire-purchase
agreement shall contain a description of the part of the hire-purchase price.
(3) Where any of the requirements specified in
sub-section (1) or sub-section 92) has not been complied with, the hirer may
institute a suit for getting the hire-purchase agreement rescinded, and the
court may, if it is satisfied that the failure to comply with any such
requirement has prejudiced the hirer, rescind the agreement on such term as it
thinks just, or pas such other order as it thinks fit in the circumstances of
the case.