National Westminster Finance New Zealand Ltd v South Pacific Rent-a-Car Ltd - [1985] 1 NZLR 646

Contract — Hire purchase agreements — Validation of agreements — Purchase of cars for rental fleet — Whether cars were sold "otherwise than at retail" - Agreements contravened reg 10 of the Hire Purchase and Credit Sales Stabilisation Regulations 1957 - Whether proviso to reg 10 affected the Court's jurisdiction to validate the agreements — Hire Purchase Act 1971, s 2 - Illegal Contracts Act 1970, s 7.