Singapore legislation

Section 27

of Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

Section 27

Choice of law clauses

(1)

Where the proper law of a contract is the law of Singapore only by choice of the parties (and apart from that choice would be the law of some country outside Singapore) sections 2 to 7 do not operate as part of the proper law.

(2)

This Act has effect notwithstanding any contract term which applies or purports to apply the law of some country outside Singapore, where (either or both) —

(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; or

(b)

in the making of the contract one of the parties dealt as consumer, and he was then habitually resident in Singapore, and the essential steps necessary for the making of the contract were taken there, whether by him or by others on his behalf.

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