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LAW REFORM (HUSBAND AND WIFE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 5

Contracts for benefit of spouse or children.

5.(1) Where a contract (other than a contract to which section 4 applies) is
expressed to be for the benefit of, or by its express terms purports to confer
a benefit upon, a third person being the wife, husband or child of one of the
contracting parties, it shall be enforceable by the third person in his or her
own name as if he or she were a party to it.

(2) The right conferred on a third person by this section shall be subject to
any defence that would have been valid between the parties to the contract.

(3) Unless the contract otherwise provides, it may be rescinded by agreement
of the contracting parties at any time before the third person has adopted it
either expressly or by conduct.

(4) This section applies whether the contract was made before or after the
commencement of this Act.

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