# Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, Section 17: Control of unreasonable exemptions in ... standard form contracts.

Extent: S

(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—
(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;
(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;
if it was not fair and reasonable to incorporate the term in the contract.
(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.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50/section/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977/section-17
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