The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 167 (C. 16)

Court Of Session

Scottish Courts And Tribunals Service

The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020

Made

2nd June 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

4th June 2020

Coming into force

31st July 2020

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 27(3) of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 31 July 2020.

Appointed day

2.  31 July 2020 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 20(1) to (6), (9) and (10) (group proceedings) of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018.

ASH DENHAM

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd June 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 of these Regulations brings into force certain provisions of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”).

Section 20(1) to (6), (9) and (10) relates to group proceedings and comes into force on 31 July 2020.

The Bill for the 2018 Act received Royal Assent on 5 June 2018. Sections 24 to 28 came into force on the following day and section 23 came into force on 5 August 2018.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 have been brought into force by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations.

Provision	Date of Commencement	Instrument No.
Section 4(1) and (2)	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 5	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 6(8)	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 7(3) and (4)	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 12(1), (3) and (4)	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 14	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 15	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 16	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 17	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 18	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 19	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 20(7) and (8)	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 21	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 22	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
The schedule	30 January 2019	S.S.I. 2018/368
Section 1	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23
Section 2	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23
Section 3	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23
Section 4(3) to (5)	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23
Section 6(1) to (7), (9) and (10)	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23
Section 7(1) and (2)	27 April 2020	S.S.I. 2020/23

(1)

2018 asp 10.