§ Mr. Brintonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if any further orders are to be made under section 12(4) of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982.
§ Mr. FletcherYes. On 4 January I made an order that the provisions of section 13 of this Act shall not apply to the services rendered by an arbitrator in his capacity as such. It has been laid before the House today, and will come into operation on 1 March.
The order is similar to two other orders; the Supply of Services (Exclusion of Implied Terms) Order 1982, SI 1982/1771 and the Supply of Services (Exclusion of Implied Terms) Order 1983, SI 1983/902 which, respectively, disapply section 13 from the services rendered by company directors to their companies and the services rendered to a building society by a director of the society or to those rendered to an industrial or provident society by a member of its committee of management or other directing body.
The obligations (if any) which arbitrators owe to the parties to an arbitration will, in cases where the subject is not dealt with in their contract or otherwise provided for, accordingly be governed by the Common Law and not section 13 of the 1982 Act.