FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1947 - SECT 2 Provisions as to application of this Act.

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FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1947 - SECT 2

Provisions as to application of this Act.

2.(1) This Act shall apply to contracts, whether made before or after the
commencement of this Act, as respects which the time of discharge is on or
after the first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, but not to
contracts as respect which the time of discharge is before the said date.

(2) Contracts to which a Ministry of Northern Ireland is a party shall not for
that reason be excluded from the operation of this Act.

(3) Where any contract to which this Act applies contains any provision which,
upon the true construction of the contract, is intended to have effect in the
event of circumstances arising which operate, or would but for the said
provision operate, to frustrate the contract, or is intended to have effect
whether such circumstances arise or not, the court shall give effect to the
said provision and shall only give effect to the foregoing section of this Act
to such extent, if any, as appears to the court to be consistent with the said
provision.

(4) Where it appears to the court that a part of any contract to which
this Act applies can properly be severed from the remainder of the contract,
being a part wholly performed before the time of discharge, or so performed
except for the payment in respect of that part of the contract of sums which
are or can be ascertained under the contract, the court shall treat that part
of the contract as if it were a separate contract and had not been frustrated
and shall treat the foregoing section of this Act as only applicable to the
remainder of that contract.

(5) This Act shall not apply

(a)to any voyage charterparty, or to any contract (other than a charterparty)
for the carriage of goods by sea; or

(b)to any contract of insurance, save as is provided by sub-section (5) of the
foregoing section; or

(c)to any contract to which [section 7 of the Sale of Goods Act, 1979] (which
avoids contracts for the sale of specific goods which perish before the risk
has passed to the buyer) applies, or to any other contract for the sale, or
for the sale and delivery, of specific goods, where the contract is frustrated
by reason of the fact that the goods have perished.

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