Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00130:clause:5_179s
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00130
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 179S
Character Range: 146447–147825

179S  Linked lessors and tied consumer leases
 (1) For the purposes of this Code, a linked lessor of a supplier means a lessor:
 (a) with whom the supplier has a contract, arrangement or understanding relating to:
 (i) the supply to the supplier of goods in which the supplier deals; or
 (ii) the business carried on by the supplier of supplying goods; or
 (iii) the provision to persons of a consumer lease for the hire of goods supplied by the supplier to the lessor; or
 (b) to whom the supplier, by arrangement with the lessor, regularly refers persons for the purpose of being provided with a consumer lease; or
 (c) whose forms of contract or forms of application or offers for a consumer lease are, by arrangement with the lessor, made available to persons by the supplier; or
 (d) with whom the supplier has a contract, arrangement or understanding under which applications for a consumer lease or offers to be provided with a consumer lease from the lessor may be signed by persons at the premises of the supplier.
 (2) A tied consumer lease is a consumer lease entered into between a lessor and a lessee where:
 (a) the lessee enters into the lease to hire goods supplied by the supplier to the lessor; and
 (b) at the time the lease is entered into the lessor is a linked lessor of the supplier.

Subdivision B—Liability of lessors for suppliers' misrepresentations