Equipment rental agreement checklist

Read the document to make sure it meets your needs and that you’ve provided all of the necessary information about the equipment hire. Ask a lawyer for advice if you have any questions.

If the customer is a consumer (ie a private individual who is not acting in the course of business), the provider must be particularly careful to abide by all requirements set out by consumer law. For example, certain information must be provided to a consumer before a contract is formed between the parties.

This Equipment Rental Agreement incorporates the key information that a business usually must provide when making contracts with consumers. However, the provider should check that they’re providing all necessary information, as additional information may be required depending on a business’s unique situation (eg if it operates in a regulated sector or sells via a subscription model).

For more information, read Doing business with consumers, Consumer rights, Terms and conditions, and the FAQs for this document. 

The provider and the customer must both sign the Agreement. If either party is a company or a partnership, its representative (ie signatory) must sign. 

The date of the Agreement is the date on which the parties sign, if that is the same day. If they sign on different days, it is the day on which the last person signs.

You can sign your Equipment Rental Agreement by either:

• signing online using RocketSign, or

• signing in print:

  • print a copy for both parties

  • both parties should sign and date each copy by hand. They can do this at different times, for example, if the provider sends the customer both signed copies and asks them to sign both then keep one and return the other

A copy of your Equipment Rental Agreement will be stored automatically in your Rocket Lawyer account ‘Dashboard’.

You should also download and securely store a copy of your Equipment Rental Agreement for your records.

If you signed in print, each party should securely store their copy of the Agreement that has been signed by all of the parties.