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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contract-third-party-rights-scotland-act-2017/section-3",
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  "legislation": "asp/2017/5",
  "legislation_title": "Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contract-third-party-rights-scotland-act-2017",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Contracting parties' freedom to alter third party's entitlement",
  "text": "(1) An undertaking contained in a contract which has given rise to a third-party right may be cancelled or modified by the contracting parties.\n(2) Nothing in this Act precludes a contract from providing that an undertaking, which is contained in the contract and in relation to which a third-party right has arisen, will not be cancelled or modified by the contracting parties.\n(3) Subsection (1) is subject to sections 4 to 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 26.2.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/8, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2017/5/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:21.485376+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}