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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Contracts legislation - Contractual privity

10: Purpose

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“This part explains how you can benefit from promises made in legal documents even if you didn't sign them”

This part of the law allows you to benefit from a promise made in a deed or contract, even if you are not directly involved in it. This means that if someone makes a promise in a legal document that is meant to help you, you can make sure they keep that promise. You don’t have to be one of the people who signed the document to do this.

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Contractual privity

10Purpose

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to permit a person who is not a party to a deed or contract to enforce a promise made in it for the benefit of that person.

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