Hire agreement for audio-visual or other equipment

About this audio-visual hire agreement

These are the business terms and conditions for hiring out the audio visual equipment or any technical as well as semi technical products to businesses or consumers.This agreement is drawn as a “terms and conditions” document which you will probably send out with a quotation or place on your counter, ready for a customer to sign. Use this template for a business model where the hirer signs in your shop or on delivery by you to his site. You can also adapt it for use on your website. Use for any hire period.

You can also use this document to:

• establish ownership and liability between companies in a group;
• hire out any product as a one-off agreement between two businesses;
• hire out any product to consumers.

Our use of plain English makes this document easy to edit to match your business model, without having to be your own advocate.

This is not a hire purchase agreement and does not provide any sale option. The owner of the product remains the exclusive sole owner of the product.

Using a professionally drawn document will give you the confidence to know that your valuable goods have the best possible legal protection.

The benefit of clear terms and conditions

Terms and conditions are probably the best example of a legal document where use of plain English strengthens the legal effect of the document. If a dispute should arise, it would be hard for a hirer to claim that he did not understand, even if English is not his first language.

Using this document to hire equipment will help you to:

• set out clearly how your business works and how equipment can be hired for any period;
• ensure that the hirer receives the quality of service that you aim to provide - and that you can act against a hirer who oversteps or misuses the equipment;
• present a professional image of your business. Our use of plain English helps to ensure that your customer do not feel intimidated by overly formal or legalistic language;
• provide alternatives for collection of equipment and make solving disputes easier.

Features and contents of this hire agreement

It includes terms relating to:

• the basic contract - terms of hiring
• includes alternative draft quotations text
• responsibilities for delivery and return covered, with options
• compliance with your return and refund terms
• extensive disclaimers place liability on hirer
• loss or damage caused by third parties
• breakdown and repair of equipment during hire period
• hirer indemnifies you
• miscellaneous legal matters to protect your business