Terms & Conditions

YOU THE BORROWERS ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEBT TO THE LENDER OF THE INITIAL UNPAID BALANCE AND AGREE: 

Meaning The expression “borrowers” or “you” includes their/your executors, administrators and successors in title. “Collateral” means the goods and/or other personal property described in the disclosure statement in the box headed

WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF YOU FAIL TO MEET YOUR COMMITMENTS

Security Interest and includes an interest in such goods or other personal property. “Default under this agreement means that the borrower or the guarantor does something he is required not to do or fails to do something he is required to do.

 “Default Fees” are listed under that heading in the disclosure statement. “Default interest” is the interest described in the disclosure charged from the time that you fall into financial default until you are no longer in financial default. 

“Financial default” means that you have failed to pay and still fail to pay an instalment or other payment when due or demanded as the case may be; “Guarantor” means the person shown as guarantor in this agreement and the attached guarantee and includes his or her executors, administrators and successors in title. 

“The money secured” means all money, including the initial unpaid balance and default or other interest, and default and other fees and charges, and disbursements and other money, which you must pay to the lender under this agreement or under any collateral or subsequent loan agreement.

“Own” includes “having an interest in” and “owner” is interpreted accordingly. “Person” includes a limited liability company or other legal entity or an organisation as defined in the PPSA. “PPSA” means the Personal Property Securities Act 1999. 

“Working day” means any day but a Saturday, Sunday or a national public holiday. Each gender shall include other genders. All obligations on your part are joint and several. Any expression not described or defined in this agreement shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 unless the context requires otherwise. Unless the context prevents it, the singular shall include the plural and the plural include the singular. 

Power of Attorney and General

1. In exchange for the loan of the amount of credit and to enable the lender more effectively to obtain the benefits under this agreement, each borrower jointly and severally irrevocably appoints the lender and any one director of the lender severally to be the attorney of each borrower to do anything which the borrowers agree to do and to do anything and to sign any document which the attorney thinks desirable to ensure the lender is paid the money secured and otherwise to protect the interests of the lender under this agreement. Without in any way limiting the generality of the power, the attorney may execute any document for the purposes creating a security interest under the PPSA or causing one to attach. This power shall inure until the money secured has been paid to the lender in full. The borrowers ratify anything done by an attorney under this clause and further indemnify any person acting in reliance upon the power. If the lender assigns the benefit of this agreement the assignee shall have the same rights and powers under this clause as does the lender and each of you named as borrower irrevocably appoints the assignee his attorney accordingly. 
2. Despite sections 188 & 189 of the PPSA and Part 2 of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002, service of any Court or other statutory notice or document by facsimile or by electronic mail upon the lender shall not be deemed to be proper service. Any document to be given to or served on the lender by the borrowers shall be posted or shall be delivered personally to its address as shown in the disclosure statement. This shall apply notwithstanding that for day to day communications the lender may send and receive information by facsimile and electronic mail 
3. You shall not be released from your obligations under this Agreement or have your liability reduced by any lack of legal capacity or other reason which would result in the Agreement not being enforceable against or any moneys not being recoverable from any other person nor by virtue of any security becoming all or partly void or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever. 
4. You irrevocably authorise any person to provide the lender with such information as the lender may request as part of its administration and enforcement of the loan secured under this agreement and further irrevocably authorise the lender to provide to any third party details of the loan or any associated loan application or any financial dealings that the lender may have with the borrowers for such purposes as the lender shall see fit with respect to the lender’s business and advertising to the borrower or guarantor You must provide the lender with ongoing information and any associated document requested by the lender relating to your financial status. You further promise that all information provided by you or on your behalf to enable the lender to decide whether or not to lend to you is true and correct and if is not true and correct, the lender may demand payment of the then outstanding balance of the loan and you will pay forthwith on such demand. 
5. The law applicable to this agreement shall be the law of New Zealand. 
6. You must make all payments as shown in the PAYMENTS section of the disclosure statement when due without any deduction or set-off or counter-claim and in such manner as the lender requires. If you make any payment which is not in accordance with the schedule of payments in the “PAYMENTS” section of the disclosure statement the lender may credit the payments in accordance with the schedule. The lender may also decline to accept any part prepayment but if it accepts it, the lender may charge you administrative costs associated with the prepayment. 
7. You must pay to the lender forthwith upon demand or when otherwise due (i) the lender’s credit fees shown in the “CREDIT FEES AND CHARGES” section of the disclosure statement and (ii) the lender’s default fees and default interest shown in the “WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF YOU FAIL TO MEET YOUR COMMITMENTS – default interest charges and default fees” section of the disclosure statement and (iii) all of the lender’s costs, expenses and any other liabilities not now known to the lender (which include legal expenses on a solicitor and own client and on a full indemnity basis) which may be incurred or suffered by the lender in connection with: 
   
   A)  The preparation, signing, registration, administration, variation and release of this security agreement or any financing statement in relation to this security interest and the negotiation and grant of any consent or waiver
   
   B) The exercise or enforcement or protection or the attempted exercise enforcement or protection of any right or remedy of the lender under this agreement or what the lender believes to be a right or remedy to which it is entitled including the conduct of any Court proceedings
   
   C) Any dispute negotiation or communication with any other secured party or party claiming to be a secured party with respect to the collateral and or the priority of the security interest granted by this agreement and
   
   D) The transfer of the security interest of any other secured party to the lender or the security interest of the lender to that secured party and
   E) Any dispute negotiation or communication with any of you or with any guarantor in default
   F)  The lender’s doing anything you should have done but which you have not done.
   
   And you agree that such amounts are and are deemed to be contractual damages if they are incurred by you with the lender or suffered or incurred by the lender while you are in default hereunder and in any event if not paid shall incur default interest until paid in full. The lender may exercise all or any right, power or remedy at any time and failure to do or delay in doing so shall not constitute a waiver unless the vendor grants it in writing.
8. The lender may from time to time increase the credit fees payable under this agreement and you must pay such increased fees on demand forthwith on demand. 
9. If you fail to pay one or more instalments in full so that you are in default but otherwise are paying on time, the lender, at its absolute discretion may add the unpaid amount to the loan thus extending the term and varying the final payment or payments. The lender may but is not bound to do this more than once. 
10. Subject to the terms of the Credit (Repossession) Act 1997, if you default under this agreement the lender may accelerate repayment of the loan and require you to pay the unpaid balance to the lender forthwith. The lender may call up that money even although the time for payment has not yet been reached. In addition, save for the purposes of enforcement, the lender may terminate this agreement. 
11. If you fail to pay any instalment or other money (including any amount for which payment has been accelerated) due on the due date or on demand as the case may be you shall pay to the lender default interest on the unpaid instalment or overdue amount from the due date of such instalment or from the date of receipt or deemed receipt of demand for the money as the case may be until actual payment of the instalment or amount. All default interest shall continue to be payable after and notwithstanding judgment against you. 
12. To the extent allowed by law, the lender may from time to time without notice set off against any claim or demand which you may have any debt owed by you or or claim or demand which the lender may have against you. 
13. The lender may receive commission on any insurance included in this agreement or subsequently required. 
14. The lender may appropriate any payment received from you or money which is proceeds of the sale of collateral against any debt owed by you in any manner that the lender may decide, notwithstanding any appropriation you claim to have made or the fact that the time for payment of the amount has not arrived. 
15. This agreement secures future advances. This will apply even although any sum has been paid from time to time to the lender or any account between the borrowers and the lender may be or have been in credit or settled. 
16. In accordance with section 50 of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 1993 you may repay the outstanding balance of your loan in full before it is due. However, you must also pay the lender the administrative costs arising from the full prepayment or a charge equal to its average administrative costs so arising. The lender may also charge you a fee representing a reasonable estimate of its loss arising from the full prepayment. The lender’s method of calculating its loss is set out in the FULL PREPAYMENT section of the disclosure statement. 
17. You must maintain a landline telephone connection. You consent to the lender’s leaving the name of the lender with any person who answers that telephone number or any number provided by you and with any person shown as a contact person for you. 
18. You must not change your name or address or the place where collateral which is chattels is stored or your landline telephone number without first giving the lender five working days written notice of your intention to do so. You must not commit any act of bankruptcy. 
19. If the lender accepts any payment or banks any cheque, which you have made or forwarded in purported full settlement or in terms connoting accord and satisfaction, the lender will not be deemed by such acceptance or banking to have accepted the terms upon which the payment is made or the cheque is forwarded unless the lender has, before it receives the payment or cheque, agreed in writing to accept the amount in full settlement or otherwise as accord and satisfaction.
    
    Security Interest
20. You must store any collateral which is goods at the address shown as that of its owner in the disclosure statement. You must not allow any collateral to be taken out of New Zealand. You must also care for and maintain collateral and comply with any laws relating to its ownership and use and you must not use it in any dangerous or illegal activity or for any purpose for which it was not intended. You may not use any collateral motor vehicle for motor sport activity such as (without limitation) racing, rallying, speed or time trials. The lender may inspect any collateral on giving 24 hours written notice and you shall make such collateral available for inspection at the address that you have provided as the place where the owner lives. The lender need not give notice if the collateral is at risk and it may enter any place where it believes the goods may be to look for and inspect them. If you have granted security over after-acquired property and if you obtain consumer goods in future, you must appropriate those goods to the lender’s security interest. 
21. You must not do anything or allow anything to happen which may impair or undermine any borrower’s ownership of collateral or the lender’s security interest in collateral. Further you must not grant any other security interest over collateral nor allow any lien to be created over it nor dispose of nor allow the disposal of collateral by sale or gift or lease or in any other way nor cause nor allow collateral to be taken out of the possession of the borrower who owns it, nor destroyed, damaged, endangered, disassembled, removed from the place where your are required to keep it or concealed from the lender. You must not obtain any personalised registration plate on any motor vehicle which is collateral nor otherwise alter or remove any serial number unless you first obtain the lender’s consent in writing. 
22. Any accessions (including replacements and accessories) which are attached to collateral goods shall become part of the collateral 
23. From time to time if required by the lender you must provide security for the money secured in the form of a security interest in a motor vehicle or other chattels to the value of 100% of the money secured at that time. 
24. You must insure or procure the insurance of collateral goods and keep them insured against fire, accident, theft, flood and storm and all other risks as the lender may require both in the names of the lender and in your names for the lender’s and your respective interests, all payments, in the event of a claim to be made to the lender. You must not do or allow any act or omission which causes the insurance be invalidated or cancelled. You must provide receipts and an insurance company certificate of the insurance if required by the lender.
25. If you fail to do anything which you must do or do anything you must not do, the lender may do or pay anything to remedy the default and may add that sum to the unpaid balance and if you do not pay the cost of such remedy on demand the lender may charge you default interest. 
26.  indemnify the lender and will keep it indemnified against any claim from any person relating to the collateral or the use thereof. If the lender incurs any loss, liability or expense in respect of the collateral or this agreement as a result of any act or omission of yours then the amount of such loss, liability or expense plus goods and services tax if any shall be payable by you to the lender and shall become part of the money secured and the lender may charge default interest thereon. 
27. The lender may assign its right, title and interest in the collateral to be mortgaged or its right, title and interest in this agreement or any of them at any time. 
28. If you default under this agreement the lender may, without notice save that required under the Credit (Repossession) Act 1997, seize the collateral and for such purposes you irrevocably give to the lender the right and licence for its agents to enter any premises and if necessary to break into any building where the collateral may be situated or where you are for the purpose of searching for and seizing the collateral. The lender shall not be liable in any way to you or to any third party for any damage or loss which occurs in the process of entry into any premises or during or as a result of the seizure and subsequent sale of the collateral and you will indemnify the lender against such damage or loss. On seizure, the lender may sell the collateral by auction or otherwise in any manner and in all respects (including, without restricting the generality of the power, the right to buy in, give credit and allow payment over time) as if the lender were the unencumbered owner subject to any applicable obligations under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 and under the Credit (Repossession) Act 1997. On such sale the receipt of the lender or its agent will be sufficient discharge to the purchaser for the purchase money and no purchaser shall be bound to investigate the propriety or regularity of any such sale or be affected by any notice express or constructive that such sale is improper or irregular. 
29. In the event that, contrary to your obligations hereunder, another security interest has priority over that of the lender with respect to the collateral, and if the lender takes a transfer of that security interest to itself then any money owing under this agreement shall be deemed to be owing under the security agreement providing for the security interest with priority and default under this agreement shall be deemed to be default under the other security agreement 
30. The Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 shall not apply if the collateral is acquired for business purposes 
31. The lender shall not be obliged to marshall in your favour or in favour of any other person 
32. If the lender does not at any time have priority over all other secured parties in relation to any collateral then pursuant to section 107(1) of the PPSA, for the purposes of dealing with that collateral you and the lender contract out of section 109 to the extent that the words “with priority over all other secured parties” in section 109(1) shall not apply so as to restrict the lender’s ability to seize and to sell the collateral.. In addition you irrevocably authorise the lender to pay any secured party over whom the lender does not have priority. 
33. You waive your right to receive a verification statement following registration of any security interest. 
34. If you are borrowing money from the lender in order to purchase any property to be used as security for your debt to the lender, you must apply that money to the purchase and the lender may pay the loan money directly to the seller of the property. In addition, you authorise and request the lender to pay or apply any advance to you to the person named or for the purposes set out in this agreement or any separate writing provided to the lender by you. The lender may impose such conditions on the payment or on the application of the money as it sees necessary to protect any security interest it may have or to ensure that the loan is applied in accordance with your advice to the lender.
35. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT OF GUARANTOR(S) AND LOAN APPLICANT(S). (IF THERE IS NO GUARANTOR, IT APPLIES TO THE LOAN APPLICANT(S) ONLY I confirm the acknowledgements in the application for funds and advise: I as Borrower or Guarantor have had the time to obtain independent legal advice and it is at my discretion whether I chose to do so. Borrowers’ and guarantors’ initials 

Right to Cancel 
Statement of right to cancel 

The Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 gives you a right for a short time after the terms of this contract have been disclosed to you to cancel the contract. 

How to cancel 

If you want to cancel this contract you must give written notice to the creditor. 

(a) You must also return to the creditor any advance and any other property received by you under the contract. 

Time limits for cancellation 

If the disclosure documents are handed to you directly you must give notice that you intend to cancel within 3 working days after you receive the documents. 

If the disclosure documents are sent to you by electronic means (for example, email) you must give notice that you intend to cancel within 5 working days after the electronic communication is sent. 

If the documents are mailed to you, you must give the notice within 7 working days after they were posted. 

Saturdays, Sundays, and national public holidays are not counted as working days. 

What you may have to pay if you cancel 

If you cancel the contract the creditor can charge you— (

a) the amount of any reasonable expenses the creditor had to pay in connection with the contract and its cancellation (including legal fees and fees for credit reports, etc) and 

(b) Interest for the period from the day you received the advance until the day you repay the advance 

This statement only contains a summary of your rights and obligations in connection with the right to cancel. If there is anything about your rights or obligations under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 that you do not understand, if there is a dispute about your rights, or if you think that the creditor is being unreasonable in any way, you should seek legal advice immediately.