Western Australian Current Acts

HIRE-PURCHASE ACT 1959 - SECT 8

8 .         Payment made under 2 or more agreements, apportionment of

                A hirer who is liable to make payments in respect of 2 or more hire-purchase agreements to the same owner is entitled, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, on making any payment in respect of the agreements that is not sufficient to discharge the total amount then due under all the agreements, to require the owner to appropriate the sum so paid by him in or towards the satisfaction of the sum due under any one of the agreements, or in or towards the satisfaction of the sums due under any 2 or more of the agreements in such proportions as he thinks fit, and, if he fails to make any such appropriation, the payment shall by virtue of this section be deemed to be appropriated in or towards the satisfaction of the sums due under the respective agreements in the order in which the agreements were entered into.