Merchant Shipping(Liner Conferences) Act 1982

6 Proceedings by or against unincorporated conferences. U.K.

(1) A conference which is not a body corporate may nevertheless sue and be sued in its own name in proceedings arising out of the Code.

(2) Subsection (1) applies to any proceedings in the United Kingdom and to proceedings elsewhere in which the capacity of a conference to sue and be sued in its own name falls to be determined by reference to the law of a part of the United Kingdom.

(3) A judgment given for or against an unincorporated conference in proceedings brought against the conference in its own name, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, shall be binding on the members of the conference, and such a judgment given against a conference shall be enforceable—

(a) against any property held in trust for the purposes of the conference, to the like extent and in the like manner as if the conference were a body corporate; and

(b) against any member of the conference, subject to section 5(5).

(4) Subsection (3) applies in each part of the United Kingdom to judgments given by a court of that part or which are enforceable or entitled to recognition in that part.