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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.

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