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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 17

Civil rights in respect of maintenance and champerty.

17.(1) No person shall, under the law of Northern Ireland, be liable in tort
for any conduct on account of its being maintenance or champerty as known to
the common law, except in the case of a cause of action accruing before this
section has effect.

(2) The abolition of criminal and civil liability under the law of Northern
Ireland for maintenance and champerty shall not affect any rule of that law as
to the cases in which a contract is to be treated as contrary to public policy
or otherwise illegal.


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