S 674 substituted for s 674 and 675 by No 72 of 2001, s 3 and Sch 2 item 6, applicable to arrangements entered into after 27 February 1998. S 675 formerly read:
SPECIAL MEANING OF
DISPOSE
IN THE CASE OF HIRE-PURCHASE
675
If a person (the
purchaser
) who takes an item of property on hire under a hire-purchase agreement does or fails to do anything that results in the person from whom the purchaser took the item on hire under the agreement obtaining possession of the item:
(a)
the purchaser is taken to have disposed of the item; and
(b)
the disposal is taken to have happened when the other person obtained possession from the purchaser.
S 675 inserted by No 31 of 1995.