- (l) the validity, nullity or dissolution of any legal person, or the validity of a decision of the management of the legal person;
- (m) the validity of any intellectual property right (other than copyright and related rights);
- (n) the infringement of any intellectual property right (other than copyright and related rights) except any infringement proceedings that are or could have been brought for breach of a contract between the parties relating to that intellectual property right;
- (o) the validity of an entry in a public register.
(3) This Act does not apply to an arbitration or any proceeding related to an arbitration.
(4) The Minister may by regulations made under section 22—
- (a) exclude from the application of this Act—
- (i) any specific matter; or
- (ii) any specific matter in relation to any Contracting State; or
- (b) modify the application of this Act or any provision of this Act to—
- (i) any specific matter; or
- (ii) any specific matter in relation to any Contracting State.
(5) Despite subsections (2) and (4)(a), the raising, in any court proceedings, of a matter mentioned in subsection (2) or (4)(a) as a preliminary question or defence, and not as an object of the proceedings, does not prevent this Act from applying to those proceedings.
(6) A proceeding under a contract of insurance or reinsurance is not excluded from the application of this Act by reason only that the contract relates to a matter to which this Act does not apply.
(7) A proceeding is not excluded from the application of this Act by reason only that a State (including a government, a government agency or any person acting for a State) is a party to the proceeding.
