The Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 (Amendment) Order 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/1900
• Sections: 9

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 (Amendment) Order 1994. It shall come into force on the date on which the Convention on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the Rome Convention and to the Brussels Protocol enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom, which date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

Section 2

In this Order “ the Act ” means the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990.

Section 3

The following shall be inserted after paragraph (c) of section 1 of the Act—

(d) “the Funchal Convention” means the Convention on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the Rome Convention and the Brussels Protocol, with adjustments made to the Rome Convention by the Luxembourg Convention, signed by the United Kingdom in Funchal on 18th May 1992;

Section 4

The following shall be substituted for the words “the Rome Convention, the Luxembourg Convention and the Brussels Protocol” in section 1 of the Act—

these Conventions and this Protocol

Section 5

The following shall be substituted for the words “Schedules 1, 2 and 3” in section 2(4) of the Act—

Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 3A

Section 6

The word “and” shall be deleted from paragraph (b) of section 2(4) of the Act and the following shall be inserted at the end of that subsection—

; and

(d) the Funchal Convention.

Section 7

In Schedule 1 to the Act paragraph 2 of Article 22, Article 27 and the second sentence of the third paragraph of Article 30 shall be deleted.

Section 8

In Schedule 1 to the Act the following shall be substituted for Article 31(d)—

(d) communications made in pursuance of Articles 23, 24, 25, 26 and 30;

Section 9

The text set out in the Schedule to this Order shall be inserted after Schedule 3 to the Act.