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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992/schedule-20/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/40",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1992",
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  "path": "schedule/20/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the preceding provisions of this Part of this Schedule, a court in a part of the United Kingdom shall act in accordance with the provisions of the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990.\n(2) In particular, reference shall be made to those provisions—\n(a) to ascertain for the purposes of paragraph 1 above what freedom of choice the parties have under the law of a part of the United Kingdom; and\n(b) to determine whether the mandatory rules of another member State should be applied in accordance with paragraph 3(1) above where the law otherwise applicable is the law of a part of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(1) substituted (1.1.1994) by S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(1) substituted (1.1.1994) by S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 6(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(2) substituted (1.1.1994) by S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 6(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Sch. 20: by virtue of S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 6(2), Sch. 20 has become (1.1.1994) Sch. 20 Pt. I"
    }
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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