Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018

Prospective

1Obligations to pay damages and delictual obligationsS

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(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 ”.