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The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009

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Restriction on the application of the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 and related legislation

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3.—(1) Section 8 of the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 (disapplication of sections 1, 2 and 4 where the rules in the Rome II Regulation apply) (1) is amended as follows.

(2) In the section heading, for “the rules in the Rome II Regulation apply” substitute “the law applicable to limitation is determined by other instruments”.

(3) In subsection (1), before “the Rome II Regulation” insert “the Rome I Regulation or”.

(4) After subsection (1), insert—

(1A) In subsection (1) the “Rome I Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No. 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations, including that Regulation as applied by regulation 5 of the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009 (conflicts solely between the laws of different parts of the United Kingdom or between one or more parts of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar).

(1)

1984 c. 16, as amended by SI 2008/2986.

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