ABSTRACT
In this Act – (a) ‘the Rome Convention’ means the Convention on the law applicable to contractual
obligations opened for signature in Rome on 19th June 1980 and signed by the United Kingdom on 7th December 1981;
(b) ‘the Luxembourg Convention’ means the Convention on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Rome Convention signed by the United Kingdom in Luxembourg on 10th April 1984;
(c) ‘the Brussels Protocol’ means the fi rst Protocol on the interpretation of the Rome Convention by the European Court signed by the United Kingdom in Brussels on 19th December 1988;
(d) ‘the Funchal Convention’ means the Convention on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the Rome Convention and the Brussels Protocol, with adjustments made to the Rome Convention by the Luxembourg Convention, signed by the United Kingdom in Funchal on 18th May 1992;
(e) ‘the 1996 Accession Convention’ means the Convention on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the Rome Convention and the Brussels Protocol, with the adjustments made to the Rome Convention by the Luxembourg Convention and the Funchal Convention, signed by the United Kingdom in Brussels on 29th November 1996;
and these Conventions and this Protocol are together referred to as ‘the Conventions’.
