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Regulation 3 UNCITRAL Model Law to have force of lawI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The UNCITRAL Model Law shall have the force of law in Northern Ireland in the form set out in Schedule 1 (which contains the UNCITRAL Model Law with certain modifications to adapt it for application in Northern Ireland).

(2)

Without prejudice to any practice of the courts as to the matters which may be considered apart from this paragraph, the following documents may be considered in ascertaining the meaning or effect of any provision of the UNCITRAL Model Law as set out in Schedule 1—

(a)

the UNCITRAL Model Law;

(b)

any documents of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and its working group relating to the preparation of the UNCITRAL Model Law; and

(c)

the Guide to Enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law (UNCITRAL document A/CN.9/442)f1 prepared at the request of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law made in May 1997.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 3 in operation at 12.4.2007, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

A United Nations Publication, ISBN 92-1-133608-2.