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Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990
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1Meaning of “the Conventions”
In this Act—
(a)“the Rome Convention” means the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations opened for signature in Rome on 19th June 1980 and signed by the United Kingdom on 7th December 1981;
(b)“the Luxembourg Convention” means the Convention on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Rome Convention signed by the United Kingdom in Luxembourg on 10th April 1984; and
(c)“the Brussels Protocol” means the first Protocol on the interpretation of the Rome Convention by the European Court signed by the United Kingdom in Brussels on 19th December 1988;
and the Rome Convention, the Luxembourg Convention and the Brussels Protocol are together referred to as “the Conventions”.
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