s 9 Certain matters excluded from Act
9.—(1) This Act does not apply to an exclusive choice of court agreement if —(a) any party to the agreement is an individual who acts primarily in the capacity of a consumer; or (b) the agreement relates to a contract of employment or a collective agreement. (2) This Act does not apply to any of the following matters:(a) the status and legal capacity of an individual; (b) any matter relating to family law, including —(i) the rights or obligations arising out of a marriage or a similar relationship; (ii) divorce or the annulment or dissolution of a marriage; (iii) maintenance; (iv) matrimonial property; and (v) the custody of children; (c) any matter relating to succession, including wills, intestate succession, the provision of maintenance for a spouse or child of a deceased individual out of the deceased individual’s estate, the administration of estates and other probate matters; (d) bankruptcy, insolvency, composition or any analogous matter; (e) the carriage of passengers and goods; (f) any matter relating to any of the following:(i) marine pollution; (ii) limitation of liability for a maritime claim; (iii) general average; (iv) emergency towage and salvage; (g) any matter relating to competition or anti‑trust law; (h) liability for nuclear damage; (i) any claim for personal injury or death brought by or on behalf of an individual; (j) any tort or delict claim, for damage to any movable or immovable tangible property, that does not arise from a contractual relationship; (k) any right in rem in any immovable property or any tenancy of immovable property; (l) the validity, nullity or dissolution of any legal person, or the validity of a decision of the management of the legal person; (m) the validity of any intellectual property right (other than copyright and related rights); (n) the infringement of any intellectual property right (other than copyright and related rights) except any infringement proceedings that are or could have been brought for breach of a contract between the parties relating to that intellectual property right; (o) the validity of an entry in a public register. (3) This Act does not apply to an arbitration or any proceeding related to an arbitration. (4) The Minister may by regulations made under section 22 —(a) exclude from the application of this Act —(i) any specific matter; or (ii) any specific matter in relation to any Contracting State; or (b) modify the application of this Act or any provision of this Act to —(i) any specific matter; or (ii) any specific matter in relation to any Contracting State. (5) Despite subsections (2) and (4)(a), the raising in any court proceedings of a matter mentioned in subsection (2) or (4)(a) as a preliminary question or defence, and not as an object of the proceedings, does not prevent this Act from applying to those proceedings. (6) A proceeding under a contract of insurance or reinsurance is not excluded from the application of this Act by reason only that the contract relates to a matter to which this Act does not apply. (7) A proceeding is not excluded from the application of this Act by reason only that a State (including a government, a government agency or any person acting for a State) is a party to the proceeding. (8) This Act does not affect the privileges and immunities of a State or an international organisation, in respect of the State or international organisation and of its property.