The Advertisements (Hire-Purchase) Act 1957 (1957 c.41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that regulated the way in which hire-purchase agreements could be advertised. One of the objectives of the had been to make sure that people entering into a hire-purchase agreement must be signed by the parties and must contain minimal financial information. This did not help, however, in situations where a party may have been misled by advertisements, and putting something in a document is not the same as ensuring somebody has read it before they signed it.