{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-89.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/23",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996",
  "path": "section/89",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Application of unfair terms regulations to consumer arbitration agreements.",
  "text": "(1) The following sections extend the application of Part 2 (unfair terms) of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in relation to a term which constitutes an arbitration agreement.\nFor this purpose “arbitration agreement” means an agreement to submit to arbitration present or future disputes or differences (whether or not contractual).\n(2) In those sections “the Part” means Part 2 (unfair terms) of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.\n(3) Those sections apply whatever the law applicable to the arbitration agreement.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(1) substituted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 31(2); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 89(2) substituted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 31(3); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/23/section/89",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:14:06.506827+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}