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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/36",
  "legislation_title": "Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Meaning of “the Rome Convention”",
  "text": "In this Act, a reference to the Rome Convention is a reference to the provisions contained in Schedule 1 (which is derived from the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations opened for signature in Rome on 19th June 1980).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 wholly in force at 1.4.1991 see s. 7 and S.I. 1991/707, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/36/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:58.710952+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."
}