Section 99: Right to terminate hire-purchase etc. agreements.

Consumer Credit Act 1974 · 1974 c.39

Part VII: Default and Termination

99(1)

At any time before the final payment by the debtor under a regulated hire-purchase or regulated conditional sale agreement falls due, the debtor shall be entitled to terminate the agreement by giving notice to any person entitled or authorised to receive the sums payable under the agreement.

99(2)

Termination of an agreement under subsection (1) does not affect any liability under the agreement which has accrued before the termination.

99(3)

Subsection (1) does not apply to a conditional sale agreement relating to land after the title to the land has passed to the debtor.

99(4)

In the case of a conditional sale agreement relating to goods, where the property in the goods, having become vested in the debtor, is transferred to a person who does not become the debtor under the agreement, the debtor shall not thereafter be entitled to terminate the agreement under subsection (1).

99(5)

Subject to subsection (4), where a debtor under a conditional sale agreement relating to goods terminates the agreement under this section after the property in the goods has become vested in him, the property in the goods shall thereupon vest in the person (the "previous owner ") in whom it was vested immediately before it became vested in the debtor:

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.