{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/50",
  "legislation_title": "Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-contract-terms-act-1977",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Choice of law clauses.",
  "text": "(1) Where the law applicable to a contract is the law of any part of the United Kingdom only by choice of the parties (and apart from that choice would be the law of some country outside the United Kingdom) sections 2 to 7 and 16 to 21 of this Act do not operate as part of the law applicable to the contract.\n(2) This Act has effect notwithstanding any contract term which applies or purports to apply the law of some country outside the United Kingdom, where ...—\n(a) the term appears to the court, or arbitrator or arbiter to have been imposed wholly or mainly for the purpose of enabling the party imposing it to evade the operation of this Act; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(1) substituted (1.4.1991) by Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 (c. 36, SIF 30), s. 5, Sch. 4 para. 4; S.I. 1991/707, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(2) 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. 24(2)(a); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 27(2)(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. 24(2)(b); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 27(3) 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. 24(3); S.I. 2015/1630, arts. 3(g), 4(c) (with art. 6(1)(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50/section/27",
    "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."
}