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Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003

Repossession of consumer goods under consumer credit contract - Prohibitions relating to security interest over certain consumer goods

83ZP: Exclusion for fixtures

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"Things attached to a house or land are not taken back"

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You have a consumer credit contract for goods. If you attach something to a building or land, it becomes part of the building or land. In this case, the rules about taking back goods do not apply to that thing.

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Part 3ARepossession of consumer goods under consumer credit contract
Prohibitions relating to security interest over certain consumer goods

83ZPExclusion for fixtures

  1. Nothing in this subpart applies to a thing that has been affixed to any building or land in such a manner that it becomes part of the structure of the building or otherwise becomes integral to the land.

Notes
  • Section 83ZP: inserted, on , by section 51 of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 33).