Boilerplate provisions in public sector agreements: general considerations

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Boilerplate provisions in public sector agreements: general considerations

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Practice notes

Nature of Boilerplate provisions in public Sector contracts

Lawyers work on a huge variety of transactions, but all of them will in some way involve written agreements. Most of those agreements will contain boilerplate provisions in some form.

'Boilerplate' is the term used to describe the clauses that are included in an agreement to deal with the mechanics of how the agreement works and those Generic legal points that are relevant to most transactions. They are generally found at the beginning and the end of an agreement. Such clauses are often thought of as standard, miscellaneous provisions, but this is a dangerous view to adopt.

Boilerplate clauses can have a significant impact on the other clauses in an agreement and on an agreement as a whole. It is important that any such impact is intentional and not the result of a boilerplate clause being included in an agreement without due consideration of why it has been included. It is not unusual for a boilerplate clause to be the cause of litigation.

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United Kingdom

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Boilerplate definition

What does Boilerplate mean?

Boilerplate is a term used for clauses/terms (normally of a standard nature) and common to most agreements, which do not relate to the substantive part of the contract but are required to set out how the contract works.

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