22. After section 44 insert—
44A.—(1) This section applies to—
(a)proceedings within Section 3 of Title II of the Lugano Convention (insurance contracts);
(b)proceedings within Section 4 of Title II of the Lugano Convention (consumer contracts); and
(c)proceedings within Section 5 of Title II of the Lugano Convention (employment 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 Lugano Convention to be domiciled in the United Kingdom by virtue of —
(a)Article 9(2) (insurers); or
(b)Article 15(2) (suppliers of goods, services or credit to consumers); or
(c)Article 18(2) (employers),
shall, for the purposes of those proceedings, be treated as so domiciled and as domiciled in the part of the United Kingdom in which the branch, agency or establishment in question is situated.”.