Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018 Explanatory Notes

1. Introduction

2. The Act – Commentary on Sections

   1. The structure of the Act

      1. Section 1 - Obligations to pay damages and delictual obligations

      2. Section 2 - Obligations related to contract

      3. Section 3 - Statutory obligations

      4. Section 4 - Effect of fraud or error on computation of prescriptive period

      5. Section 5 - Start point of prescriptive period for obligations to pay damages

      6. Section 6 - Obligations: 20-year prescriptive period and extension

      7. Section 7 - Property rights: 20-year prescriptive period and extension

      8. Section 8 - Start point of prescriptive period for obligations to pay damages

      9. Section 9 - Saving for other statutory provisions about prescription or limitation

      10. Section 10 - Definition of “relevant claim”

      11. Section 11 - Prescriptive periods under sections 6 and 8A: interruption by relevant claim

      12. Section 12 - Definition of “final disposal” of relevant claim

      13. Section 13 - Restrictions on contracting out

      14. Section 14 - Burden of proof

      15. Section 15 – Ancillary provision

      16. Section 16 – Consequential modifications

      17. Section 18 – Short title

3. Parliamentary History