Contractual Mistakes Act 1977

2 Interpretation

• (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  court means, in relation to any matter, the court, tribunal, or arbitral tribunal by or before which the matter falls to be determined

  mistake means a mistake, whether of law or of fact.

  (2) For the purposes of this Act, and without limiting the meaning of the term mistake of law, but subject to section 6(2)(a), a mistake in the interpretation of a document is a mistake of law.

  (3) There is a contract for the purposes of this Act where a contract would have come into existence but for circumstances of the kind described in section 6(1)(a).

  Section 2(1) court: substituted, on 19 December 2002, by section 3 of the Contractual Mistakes Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 78).