# Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017, Section 8: Defences available against third party


(1) This section applies where a person has a third-party right to enforce or otherwise invoke an undertaking contained in a contract.
(2) A contracting party has available, as a defence against a claim by the person that the undertaking has been breached, any defence which is both—
(a) a defence that a contracting party would have against any other contracting party, and
(b) relevant to the undertaking.
(3) Subsection (2) is subject to any contrary provision made in the contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2017/5/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/contract-third-party-rights-scotland-act-2017/section-8
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