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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Contracts legislation - Illegal contracts - Restraints of trade

84: Law relating to restraint of trade and to ouster of jurisdiction not affected

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“Rules for special contracts that limit your actions or court options stay the same”

This part of the law doesn’t change how the law works for certain types of contracts. It’s talking about two specific kinds of contracts:

  1. Contracts that limit what you can do in business or trade.
  2. Contracts that say you can’t go to court to solve a problem.

The law for these types of contracts stays the same as it was before. This means that if you have one of these contracts, the rules haven’t changed.

However, there’s one exception to this. The law mentions that section 83 might change things a bit. So, if you’re dealing with these kinds of contracts, you might need to check what section 83 says too.

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Part 2 Contracts legislation
Illegal contracts: Restraints of trade

84Law relating to restraint of trade and to ouster of jurisdiction not affected

  1. Nothing in this subpart affects the law relating to contracts, or provisions of contracts,—

  2. that are in restraint of trade; or
    1. that purport to oust the jurisdiction of any court, whether or not that court is a court within the meaning of this subpart.

      1. This section applies except as provided in section 83.

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