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Hire-Purchase Act (Northern Ireland) 1966
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63Presumptions relating to dealings with motor vehicles.N.I.
(1)Where in any proceedings (whether criminal or civil) relating to a motor vehicle it is proved—
(a)that the vehicle was bailed under a hire-purchase agreement, or was agreed to be sold under a conditional sale agreement, and
(b)that a person (whether a party to the proceedings or not) became a private purchaser of the vehicle in good faith without notice of the hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement (the “relevant agreement”),
this section shall have effect for the purpose of the operation of section 62 of this Act in relation to those proceedings.
(2)It shall be presumed for those purposes, unless the contrary is proved, that the disposition of the vehicle to the person referred to in subsection (1)( b) (the “relevant purchaser”) was made by the debtor.
(3)If it is proved that that disposition was not made by the debtor, then it shall be presumed for those purposes, unless the contrary is proved—
(a)that the debtor disposed of the vehicle to a private purchaser purchasing in good faith without notice of the relevant agreement, and
(b)that the relevant purchaser is or was a person claiming under the person to whom the debtor so disposed of the vehicle.
(4)If it is proved that the disposition of the vehicle to the relevant purchaser was not made by the debtor, and that the person to whom the debtor disposed of the vehicle (the “original purchaser”) was a trade or finance purchaser, then it shall be presumed for those purposes, unless the contrary is proved,—
(a)that the person who, after the disposition of the vehicle to the original purchaser, first became a private purchaser of the vehicle was a purchaser in good faith without notice of the relevant agreement, and
(b)that the relevant purchaser is or was a person claiming under the original purchaser.
(5)Without prejudice to any other method of proof, where in any proceedings a party thereto admits a facct, that fact shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken as against him to be proved in relation to those proceedings.
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