Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018

PART 6 GENERAL PROVISION

24 Regulations

(1) Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under this Act includes power to make—

(a) incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision,

(b) different provision for different purposes.

(2) Regulations under section 4(1), 5(1), 6(8), 7(3) or 22(1) are subject to the affirmative procedure.

(3) Regulations under section 25(1)—

(a) which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure,

(b) otherwise, are subject to the negative procedure.

(4) This section does not apply to regulations under section 27(3).

25 Ancillary provision

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act or any provision made under it.

(2) Regulations under this section may modify any enactment (including this Act).

26 Meaning of “court”

In this Act, in relation to civil proceedings in the sheriff court, a reference to the court includes a reference to the sheriff conducting the proceedings.

27 Commencement

(1) This Part comes into force on the day after Royal Assent.

(2) Part 5 comes into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the day of Royal Assent.

(3) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint.

(4) Regulations under subsection (3) may—

(a) include transitional, transitory or saving provision,

(b) make different provision for different purposes.

28 Short title

The short title of this Act is the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018.