Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

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Unfair Contract Terms (No. 26 of 1997) - Sect 5

Unreasonable indemnity clauses

5.
(1) A contract term which purports to impose on a person dealing as consumer an obligation to indemnify any other person (whether a party to the contract or not) in respect of liability that may be incurred by such other person for negligence or breach of contract shall have effect only in so far as such contract term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness.
(2) This section applies whether the liability referred to in subsection (1)"
(a) is directly that of the person to be indemnified or is incurred by him vicariously ;
(b) is to the person dealing as consumer or some other person.


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