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  "legislation_title": "Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990",
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  "text": "An act intended to have legal effect relating to an existing or contemplated contract is formally valid if it satisfies the formal requirements of the law which under this Convention governs or would govern the contract or of the law of the country where the act was done.",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Schedule 1 wholly in force at 1.4.1991 see s. 7 and S.I. 1991/707, art. 2"
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