HL Deb 29 June 1982 vol 432 c180

25 After Clause 42, insert the following new clause:

"Persons deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom for certain purposes.

—(1) This section applies to—

  1. (a) proceedings within section 3 of Title II of the 1968 Convention (insurance contracts), and
  2. (b) proceedings within section 4 of that Title (consumer contracts).

(2) A person who, for the purposes of proceedings to which this section applies arising out of the operations of a branch, agency or other establishment in the United Kingdom, is deemed for the purposes of the 1968 Convention to be domiciled in the United Kingdom by virtue of—

  1. (a) Article 8, second paragraph (insurers); or
  2. (b) Article 13, second paragraph (suppliers of goods, services or credit to consumers),
shall, for the purposes of those proceedings, be treated for the purposes of this Act as so domiciled and as domiciled in the part of the United Kingdom in which the branch, agency or establishment in question is situated."

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 25. With this I group Amendment No. 29. Amendment No. 25 inserts a new clause dealing with certain cases where Sections 3 and 4 of the 1968 convention a party is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom though he would not be domiciled here under Clauses 40 to 42. The new clause allocates jurisdiction in these cases between the courts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Amendemnt No. 29 makes a consequential change in Schedule 4. I beg to move.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.