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Section 15: Consumer hire agreements.

Consumer Credit Act 1974 · 1974 c. 39View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: Credit Agreements, Hire Agreements and Linked Transactions

A consumer hire agreement is an agreement made by a person with an individual (the "hirer ") for the bailment or (in Scotland) the hiring of goods to the hirer, being an agreement which—

is not a hire-purchase agreement, and
is capable of subsisting for more than three months, . . .
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A consumer hire agreement is a regulated agreement with the meaning of this Act if it is a regulated consumer hire agreement for the purposes of Chapter 14B of Part 2 of the Regulated Activities Order.

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