Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

64 Interpretation. E+W+S

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meaning hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say,—

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• [F2 “conditional sale agreement” means an agreement for the sale of goods under which the purchase price of part of it is payable by instalments, and the property in the goods is to remain in the seller (notwithstanding that the buyer is to be in possession of the goods) until such conditions as to the payment of instalments or otherwise as may be specified in the agreement are fulfilled;

• “creditor” means the person by whom goods are bailed or (in Scotland) hired under a hire-purchase agreement or, as the case may be, the seller under a conditional sale agreement, or the person to whom his rights and duties have passed by assignment or operation of the law;

• “hire-purchase agreement” means an agreement, other than a conditional sale agreement, under which—

(a) goods are bailed or (in Scotland) hired in return for periodical payments by the person to whom they are bailed or hired, and

(b) the property in the goods will pass to that person if the terms of the agreement are compiled with and one or more of the following occurs—

(i) the excersise of an option to purchase by that person,

(ii) the doing of any other specified act by any party to the agreement,

(iii) the happening of any other specified event;]

• [F3 “local authority” has the same meaning as in paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Increase) Act M1 1971 and any reference in this Act to a local authority shall apply also to the bodies mentioned in paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule;

• “local Act scheme” means the superannuation scheme administered by a local authority maintaining a superannuation fund under a local Act;]

• “relevant service” means service after the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty, of a description specified in the First Schedule to this Act;

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• “service” means the discharge of naval, military or air force duties, and includes training for the discharge of such duties F5 ... ;

• “service man” means a man who performs a period of relevant service;

• “short period of training” means a period of relevant service F5 ... of a description specified in [F6 paragraph 7 of the First Schedule to this Act] performed under an obligation or voluntary arrangements under which its continuous duration is limited to less than three months.

• [F7 “total price” means the total sum payable by the person to whom goods are bailed or hired under a hire-purchase agreement or, as the case may be, the buyer under a conditional sale agreement including any sum payable on the excersise of an option to purchase but excluding any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or damages for a breach of the agreement.]

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(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

(4) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.

Textual Amendments

F1 Definition repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I

F2 Definitions inserted by Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39), s. 192(4), Sch. 4 Pt. I para. 14(1)

F3 Definitions substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 32

F4 Definition repealed by Rent Act 1968 (c. 23), s. 117(5), Sch. 17 and Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 28), s. 135(2), Sch. 20

F5 Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I

F6 Words substituted by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 2

F7 Definition inserted by Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39), s. 192(4), Sch. 4 Pt. I para. 14(2)

F8 S. 64(2) repealed with saving by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55), Sch. 5 Pt. I

F9 S. 64(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1971 c. 56