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Regulation 7 Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Law Applicable to Contracts of Insurance) Regulations 2009F1I1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Law Applicable to Contracts of Insurance) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), at the end of the definition of “the Rome I Regulation” insert “, as that Regulation has effect as retained direct EU legislation, unless the contractual obligations are ones in respect of which Regulation (EC) No. 593/2008 has effect by virtue of Article 66 of the EU withdrawal agreement, in which case it means that Regulation as it has effect by virtue of that Article.”.

(3)

In regulation 3 (application of the Rome I Regulation: conflicts falling within Article 22(2))—

(a)

in the heading, for “falling within Article 22(2)” substitute “between different parts of the United Kingdom”;

(b)

for “Notwithstanding Article 22(2) of the Rome I Regulation, Article 7 of that Regulation” substitute “Article 7 of the Rome I Regulation, as that Regulation has effect as retained direct EU legislation,”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 7 substituted (17.12.2020) by The Jurisdiction, Judgments and Applicable Law (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1574), regs. 1, 6(9)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 7 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1