National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

For the purposes of this Code, a linked lessor of a supplier means a lessor:

with whom the supplier has a contract, arrangement or understanding relating to:

the supply to the supplier of goods in which the supplier deals; or

the business carried on by the supplier of supplying goods; or

the provision to persons of a consumer lease for the hire of goods supplied by the supplier to the lessor; or

to whom the supplier, by arrangement with the lessor, regularly refers persons for the purpose of being provided with a consumer lease; or

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

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.

A tied consumer lease is a consumer lease entered into between a lessor and a lessee where:

the lessee enters into the lease to hire goods supplied by the supplier to the lessor; and

at the time the lease is entered into the lessor is a linked lessor of the supplier.