{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/50",
  "legislation_title": "Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Control of unreasonable exemptions in ... standard form contracts.",
  "text": "(1) Any term of a contract which is ... a standard form contract shall have no effect for the purpose of enabling a party to the contract—\n(a) who is in breach of a contractual obligation, to exclude or restrict any liability of his to the ... customer in respect of the breach;\n(b) in respect of a contractual obligation, to render no performance, or to render a performance substantially different from that which the ... customer reasonably expected from the contract;\nif it was not fair and reasonable to incorporate the term in the contract.\n(2) In this section “customer” means a party to a standard form contract who deals on the basis of written standard terms of business of the other party to the contract who himself deals in the course of a business.\n(3) This section does not apply to a term in a consumer contract (but see the provision made about such contracts in section 62 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 omitted (1.10.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2016 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 16(2); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) omitted (1.10.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2016 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 16(3)(a); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1)(a) omitted (1.10.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2016 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 16(3)(b); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1)(b) omitted (1.10.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2016 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 16(3)(c); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 17(3) inserted (1.10.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 4 para. 16(4); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17(1)(b) extended (1.11.1998 and 1.7.1999 in relation to certain contracts and 7.8.2002 insofar as not then in force) by 1998 c. 20, s. 14(2) (with s. 12); S.I. 1998/2479, arts. 2, 3; S.I. 1999/1816, art. 3(1); S.S.I. 2002/337, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:06.272815+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."
}