A car hire agreement expressed that payment would become due ‘on the expiry of twelve months’. The form of the agreement did not comply with the Consumer Credit Act regulations. To bring the agreement within the exception provided, payment had to be required to be made at some point beginning within the 12 month period. The words here suggested payment only after expiry of the 12 month period, the agreement did not come within the exception, and it was void, and the charges were not recoverable.
Judges:
The Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Brooke And Lord Justice Robert Walker
Citations:
Times 17-Jan-2001, [2000] EWCA Civ 354, [2001] WLR 986
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Thew v Cole; King v Daltray CA 16-Dec-2003
Issues arose as to whether car hire agreements were exempt from regulation under the Act. They provided that payment was to be made in 12 months ‘from the start of the agreement’.
Held: The first question was whether the time by which the . .
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Consumer
Updated: 31 May 2022; Ref: scu.147387
