Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to
section 1(5), this Act applies to and in relation to a hire-purchase
agreement, and any agreement made in relation to a hire-purchase agreement,
that have effect immediately before the day on which section 38 of the
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Competition Policy) Act 2003 comes into
operation 1 .
(2) Subject to this
section, this Act does not apply to or in relation to an exempt hire-purchase
agreement.
(3) Section 2
applies to and in relation to an exempt hire-purchase agreement as if, in
subsection (2)(c) of that section, “in section 12A and”
and “under section 12” were deleted.
(4) For the purposes
of, and subject to, section 25, section 13(1) and (2) apply to and
in relation to an exempt hire-purchase agreement as if “section 12A
or” in section 13(2) were deleted.
(5) Section 15(1)
(except paragraph (a)), (2), (3) and (6) and section 17 apply to and
in relation to an exempt hire-purchase agreement.
(6) Section 24
applies to and in relation to an exempt hire-purchase agreement as
if —
(a)
subsection (6)(a); and
(b) in
subsection (6)(b) “in any other case — ”,
were deleted.
(7) Section 25
applies to and in relation to an exempt hire-purchase agreement.
(8) For the purposes
of subsections (4) and (7), the Third Schedule has effect in relation to
an exempt hire-purchase agreement.
(9) In this
section —
exempt hire-purchase agreement means a
hire-purchase agreement, and any agreement made in relation to a hire-purchase
agreement, entered into on or after the day referred to in
subsection (1).
[Section 1A inserted by No. 70 of 2003
s. 38.]