Provisions the documents cite: art 1 (citation; in force 1 January 2000), art 2 (revocation of the Unfair Arbitration Agreements (Specified Amount) Order 1996), art 3 (£5,000 specified for the purposes of Arbitration Act 1996 s.91)
What it requires
The amount of £5,000 is specified for the purposes of section 91 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (arbitration agreement unfair where modest amount sought) (art 3), from 1 January 2000 (art 1), replacing the 1996 Order, which it revokes (art 2) and which the explanatory note says specified £3,000. The Order was made under s.91(1) and (3)(a) and (b), and the explanatory note states that it specifies the amount for England and Wales and Scotland; Northern Ireland has its own order (the Unfair Arbitration Agreements (Specified Amount) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005), which is not held and whose amount is not stated here. The explanatory note refers to the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1994; s.89 of the 1996 Act now applies Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 instead, and the Order itself has not been changed. As at 14 September 2026 £5,000 is the current figure for England and Wales and Scotland on the evidence in the verification note.
The instrument itself: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2167. The summary above is our plain-English reading, not the text of the instrument — always work from the source.
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