(1) Except as provided by this section and subject to the provisions of any other enactment, there is no implied condition or warranty as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement.
(2) Where the owner lets goods under a hire-purchase agreement in the course of a business, there is an implied condition that the goods are of merchantable quality within the meaning of section 14(3) of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, except that there shall be no such condition -
(a) as regards defects specifically drawn to the hirer's attention before the agreement is made, or
(b) if the hirer examines the goods before the agreement is made, as regards defects which that examination ought to have revealed.
(3) Where the owner lets goods under a hire-purchase agreement in the course of a business and the hirer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the owner or the person by whom any antecedent negotiations are conducted, any particular purpos