Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS ACT 1977
1977 CHAPTER 50
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
AMENDMENT OF LAW FOR ENGLAND AND WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Introductory
Section
- 1. Scope of Part I.
Avoidance of liability for negligence, breach of contract, etc.
- 2. Negligence liability.
- 3. Liability arising in contract.
- 4. Unreasonable indemnity clauses.
Liability arising from sale or supply of goods
- 5. “Guarantee” of consumer goods.
- 6. Sale and hire-purchase.
- 7. Miscellaneous contracts under which goods pass.
Other provisions about contracts
- 8. Misrepresentation.
- 9. Effect of breach.
- 10. Evasion by means of secondary contract.
Explanatory provisions
- 11. The “reasonableness” test.
- 12. “Dealing as consumer”.
- 13. Varieties of exemption clause.
- 14. Interpretation of Part I.
PART II
AMENDMENT OF LAW FOR SCOTLAND
- 15. Scope of Part II.
- 16. Liability for breach of duty.
- 17. Control of unreasonable exemptions in consumer or standard form contracts.
- 18. Unreasonable indemnity clauses in consumer contracts.
- 19. “Guarantee” of consumer goods.
- 20. Obligations implied by law in sale and hire-purchase contracts.
- 21. Obligations implied by law in other contracts for the supply of goods.
- 22. Consequence of breach.
- 23. Evasion by means of secondary contract.
- 24. The “reasonableness” test.
- 25. Interpretation of Part II.
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