Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Minister’s power to make rules
(1) The Minister may make rules generally for the better carrying out of any of the provisions or purposes of this Act. (2) Withou…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
False information
Any person who knowingly gives false information in any proposal form or other document completed for the purpose of entering into…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Minister’s power to obtain information
(1) Every person carrying on hire-purchase business shall furnish to the Minister, at the prescribed time and in the prescribed ma…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Minister may determine interest rates etc.
(1) The Minister may, in consultation with the Central Bank of Kenya established under the Central Bank of Kenya Act (Cap. 491), d…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Service of notices
(1) Any notice or document required or authorized to be served on or given to an owner or hirer under this Act may be so served or…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Bankruptcy of hirer
If a hirer is adjudged bankrupt, the rights and duties which are the subject of the hire-purchase agreement entered into by the hi…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Agreement binding on trustee or liquidator of owner
(1) If - (a) in the case of a natural person, the owner is adjudged bankrupt; or (b) in the case of a company, the owner is placed…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Limitation on enforcement of agreement
An owner shall not be entitled, by reason of the hirer’s failure to carry out any obligation under a hire-purchase agreement, to e…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Appropriation of payments where more than one agreement
A hirer who is liable to make payments in respect of two or more hire-purchase agreements to the same owner shall be entitled, on…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Hirer may require information
(1) If a hirer hands or sends by registered post to the owner a written request therefor, and tenders to the owner a sum of ten sh…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Hirer’s refusal to surrender goods not conversion
If, while the enforcement by an owner of a right to recover possession of goods from a hirer is restricted by this Act, the hirer…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Owner to account for proceeds of sale
Where the owner under a hire-purchase agreement enforces a right to recover possession of the goods from the best price reasonably…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Successive agreements between same parties
Where goods have been let under a hire-purchase agreement and at any time after two-thirds of the hire-purchase price has been pai…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Licence to be displayed
The holder of a licence shall ensure that the licence or a copy thereof is at all times conspicuously displayed in or on every pre…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Appeals
(1) Any person who is refused a licence may appeal to the Minister in writing within one month after the date of the refusal, and…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Where renewal of licence refused
Where the holder of a licence applies for and is refused a new licence, or where a person who immediately before the commencement…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Granting of licences
(1) A person may make application for a licence in the prescribed manner, and the licensing officer shall either grant a licence a…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Licensing officer
The Minister shall appoint a public officer to be the licensing officer for the purposes of this Act.
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Licence required to carry on hire-purchase business
(1) No person after the appointed day. shall carry on hire-purchase business, except under and in accordance with the terms of a c…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Where order for delivery of goods postponed
(1) While the operation of an order for the delivery of goods to the owner is postponed under section 16(4)(b), the hirer shall be…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Provisions where suit instituted
(1) Where a suit is instituted in the circumstances described in section 15 of this Act, the owner shall not take any step to enfo…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Recovery of possession where two-thirds of price paid
(1) Where goods have been let under a hire-purchase agreement and two-thirds of the hire-purchase price has been paid, whether in…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Adverse possession
(1) Where an owner institutes a suit to enforce a right to recover possession of goods from a hirer and proves that, before the in…
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Hire Purchase Act CAP 507▤
Hirer may complete agreement
(1) The hirer under a hire-purchase agreement may give notice in writing to the owner of his intention to complete the purchase of…
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