Regulation 3 Amendment of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

In regulation 1, for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3)

A court or tribunal shall—

(a)

apply the law of the other member State concerned in place of regulations 3 to 22 where the parties have agreed that the agency contract is to be governed by the law of that member State;

(b)

(whether or not it would otherwise be required to do so) apply these Regulations where the law of another member State corresponding to these Regulations enables the parties to agree that the agency contract is to be governed by the law of a different member State and the parties have agreed that it is to be governed by the law of Northern Ireland.”.