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73J. Short-term right to terminate hire-purchase agreement.

(1) This section applies where the hirer has the short-term right to terminate the hire-purchase agreement under section 73I(1)(a).

(2) The period during which the hirer has the short-term right to terminatethe hire-purchase agreement -

(a) begins -

(i) where the hire-purchase agreement requires the owner to install the goods after their delivery or to take any other action to enable the hirer to use the goods, on the day on which the installation or other action is completed, or

(ii) in any other case, at the relevant time,

and

(b) subject to subsection (3), expires 30 days after that day or, as the case may be, the relevant time.

(3) Where goods are of a kind that can reasonably be expected to expire or deteriorate on the expiry of a smaller number of days than the 30 days referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (2), that paragraph shall apply as if for the reference to 30 days there were substituted a reference to that smaller number of days.

(4) Nothing in subsection (2) prevent

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