Section 8(1) confirms that "Nothing in this Part affects any law or custom relating to the marriage of members of the Royal Family."

Section 10 abrogates the common law rule on double actionability from the case of Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6 QB 1.

[5] Section 11 lays down the new rule, that the choice of law for tort and delict shall be the lex loci delicti commissi ("place where the wrong occurred").

[8] Defamation continues to be regulated by the common law rules and still requires double actionability.

This was felt necessary to protect British newspapers from being sued under draconian defamation laws overseas.