2020 No. 23 (C. 2)

Court Of Session

Sheriff Appeal Court

Sheriff Court

Scottish Courts And Tribunals Service

The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2020
Made
6th February 2020
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
10th February 2020
Coming into force
27th April 2020
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 27(3) and (4) of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 .

Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 27 April 2020.

Appointed day
2
27 April 2020 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018—
a
section 1 (success fee agreements),
b
section 2 (enforceability of success fee agreements),
c
section 3 (expenses in the event of success),
d
section 4(3) to (5) (cap on success fees),
e
section 6(1) to (7), (9) and (10) (personal injury claims), and
f
section 7(1) and (2) (form and content of success fee agreements).

Transitional Provision
3
The provisions listed in regulation 2 of these Regulations apply to success fee agreements entered into on or after 27 April 2020.
ASH DENHAM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
6th February 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”).
Sections 1, 2, 3, 4(3) to (5), 6(1) to (7), (9), (10), 7(1) and (2) relate to success fee agreements and come into force on 27 April 2020.
Regulation 3 is a transitional provision which disapplies the above provisions to agreements entered into before 27 April 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
2018 asp 10.