The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 330 (C.6)(S.29)

DAMAGES

The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1991

Made

24th February 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 75(2) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1991.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990.

Commencement

3.  The provisions of section 69 (future services to injured person) of the Act shall come into force on 1st March 1991.

4.  The provisions of the Act which are specified in column of the Schedule to this Order, and described by reference to subject matters in column 2 of that Schedule, shall, in so far as they are not then in force, come into force on 1st April 1991, but, where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any provision in column 3 of that Schedule, that provision shall come into force on that day only for that purpose.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

24th February 1991

Article 4

SCHEDULE The provisions of the Act which come into force on 1st April 1991

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Section 68	Amendment of Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977(2)
Section 74	Amendments and repeals	Only for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedule 9 to the Act specified or referred to in column 1 below
In schedule 9, the repeals specified in the Table below	Repeals

TABLE

REPEALS

Chapter	Short Title	Extent of Repeals
1977 c. 50.	The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977	In section 15(1), the words “applies only to contracts,”.
		In section 25, sub-sections (3)(d) and (4).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Regulation 3 of this Order appoints 1st March 1991 as the date for the coming into force of section 69 (future services to injured person) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40).

Regulation 4 appoints 1st April 1991 as the date for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act which are specified in the Schedule to the Order.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of commencement	S.I. No
Sections 63, 72, 74 (partially), 75 and Schedules 8 & 9,(partially)	1.12.1990	1990/2328
Sections 64, 65, 74 (partially) and Schedules 8 & 9 (partially)	1.1.1991	1990/2624

(1)

1990 c. 40.

(2)

1977 c. 50.