Schedule 4., Part I, Part III, paragraph 29(1)

In this Part of this Act— “conditional sale agreement ” means an agreement for the sale of goods under which the purchase price or part of it is payable by instalments, and the property in the goods is to remain in the seller (notwithstanding that the buyer is to be in possession of the goods) until such conditions as to the payment of instalments or otherwise as may be specified in the agreement are fulfilled ; “creditor ” means the person by whom goods are bailed or (in Scotland) hired under a hire-purchase agreement or as the case may be, the seller under a conditional sale agreement, or the person to whom his rights and duties have passed by assignment or operation of law ; “disposition ” means any sale or contract of sale (including a conditional sale agreement), any bailment or (in Scotland) hiring under a hire-purchase agreement and any transfer of the property in goods in pursuance of a provision, in that behalf contained in a hire-purchase agreement, and includes any transaction purporting to be a disposition (as so defined), and “dispose of ” shall be construed accordingly; “hire-purchase agreement ” means an agreement, other than a conditional sale agreement, under which— goods are bailed or (in Scotland) hired in return for periodical payments by the person to whom they are bailed or hired, and the property in the goods will pass to that person if the terms of the agreement are complied with and one or more of the following occurs— the exercise of an option to purchase by that person, the doing of any other specified act by any party to the agreement, the happening of any other specified events ; and “motor vehicle ” means a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads to which the public has access.

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