(1)The provisions of Title VII of the 1968 Convention [F1and, apart from Article 54B, of Title VII of the Lugano Convention] (relationship between [F2the Convention in question] and other conventions to which Contracting States are or may become parties) shall have effect in relation to—
(a)any statutory provision, whenever passed or made, implementing any such other convention in the United Kingdom; and
(b)any rule of law so far as it has the effect of so implementing any such other convention,
as they have effect in relation to that other convention itself.
[F3(1A)Any question arising as to whether it is the Lugano Convention or any of the Brussels Conventions which applies in the circumstances of a particular case falls to be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 54B of the Lugano Convention.]
(2)Her Majesty may by Order in Council declare a provision of a convention entered into by the United Kingdom to be a provision whereby the United Kingdom assumed an obligation of a kind provided for in Article 59 (which allows a Contracting State to agree with a third State to withhold recognition in certain cases from a judgment given by a court in another Contracting State which took jurisdiction on one of the grounds mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 3).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 9(1) inserted (1.5.1992) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12, SIF 45:3), s. 3, Sch. 2 para. 4(a) (with s. 4); S.I. 1992/745, art.2
F2Words in s. 9(1) substituted (1.5.1992) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12, SIF 45:3), s. 3, Sch. 2 para. 4(b) (with s. 4); S.I. 1992/745, art.2
F3S. 9(1A) inserted (1.5.1992) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12, SIF 45:3), s. 1(2) (with s. 4); S.I. 1992/745, art. 2