(1)The Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (“the 1973 Act”) is amended as follows.
(2)In schedule 1 (obligations affected by prescriptive periods of five years under section 6), in paragraph 1, for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—
“(d)to any obligation to pay damages (whatever the source of the obligation);
(da)to any obligation arising from delict, not being an obligation falling within any other provision of this paragraph;”.
(3)In section 11 (obligations to make reparation)—
(a)in subsection (1), for the words from “(whether” to “reparation” substitute “ to pay damages (whatever the source of the obligation) ”,
(b)the section title becomes “ Obligations to pay damages ”.
Commencement Information
I1S. 1 in force at 28.2.2025 by S.S.I. 2022/78, reg. 2(1) (with regs. 1(2), 3(1), 4(1))