Hire Purchase Essay

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Hire Purchase Hire purchase is the transaction of goods between seller and buyer, but the payment for the goods is settled by the third party. The third party will enter into a hire purchase agreement with the buyer, where the buyer will pay back the third party by way of instalment the price of the goods. Hire purchase agreement is a letting of goods with an option to purchase and an agreement to purchase the goods by way of instalment. It is govern by Hire Purchase Act 1967 which is administered by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. It set out the forms and content of Hire Purchase Agreements, the legal rights, duties, obligations of hirers and financiers. The law on hire purchase will only govern the relationship between owner and hirer, and seller is not involved at all. Under the agreement, hirer is the party who is actually the buyer of the goods and will take goods from owner. On the other hand, owner is the third party who actually own the goods and will let the goods to the hirer under a hire purchase agreement. Hirer had to repay the third party based in agreed duration and the ownership will only be transferred from owner to the hirer once all the instalments are paid up. For instance, a man would like to buy a car. He is the buyer and will deal with the seller, who was selling the car to him. However, since he does not have a large sum of money to pay for the car in a single payment, he had to deal with bank, the third party. A hire purchase agreement will be entered and now the man had become the hirer. Bank will buy the car and become the owner of the car. Hirer have to pay back the price of the car by agreed instalment, usually including a certain rate of interest set by the bank. The hirer has right to enjoy quite possession as long as he did not breach any of the agreement term and pay the instalment as agreed. The car can

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