HC Deb 24 June 1964 vol 697 c564
Mr. D. Price

I beg to move, in page 36, line 34, at the end to insert: (3) For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that no account is to be taken of section 1 of the principal Act, or of section 2 of this Act, for the purpose of construing any enactment whereby (however the enactment is expressed) it is provided that in the enactment (or, if the enactment extends to Scotland, in the enactment in its application to England and Wales) "hire-purchase agreement", or any similar expression, has the same meaning as "hire-purchase agreement" has in the principal Act or the definition of "hire-purchase agreement" in the principal Act is otherwise applied for the purposes of the enactment: Provided that this subsection shall not affect the construction of—

  1. (a) any enactment (not contained in this Act) which expressly refers to hire-purchase agreements "to which the Hire-Purchase Act 1938 applies", or
  2. (b) any reference in this Act to hire-purchase agreements to which the principal Act applies.
This Amendment makes it clear that, in any enactment which provides that the expression "hire-purchase agreement" used in that enactment is to have the same meaning as in the Act of 1938, the reference is to be taken to be the definition given in Section 21(1) of the 1938 Act, without any monetary limit and whether or not a body corporate is the hirer of the goods.

The Amendment is entirely for clarification.

Amendment agreed to.