Editing Standard form contract (section)

===United Kingdom===
Section 3 of the [[Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977]] (in [[England and Wales]]) and section 17 (in relation to standard form contracts in [[Law of Scotland|Scotland]]) limit the ability of the drafter of a consumer or standard form contract to draft clauses that would allow them to exclude liability in what is termed an exclusion clause.<ref name=uct>UK Legislation, [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50/contents Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977], accessed 19 January 2024</ref> The act does not ''per se'' render ineffective provisions in other areas which to the layman appear "unfair". Where a contract has negotiated the provisions of the act likely would not apply – the law protects from a lot of things but openly making a bad bargain is not one of them.{{cn|date=January 2024}} These provisions do not apply in contracts for the international sale of goods, i.e. where the parties' places of business are in the [[territories]] of different states.<ref name=uct />{{rp|Section 26}}