{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-asbestos-related-conditions-scotland-act-2009/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-asbestos-related-conditions-scotland-act-2009/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2009/4",
  "legislation_title": "Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-asbestos-related-conditions-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement and retrospective effect",
  "text": "(1) This Act (other than this subsection and section 5) comes into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may, by order made by statutory instrument, appoint.\n(2) Sections 1 and 2 are to be treated for all purposes as having always had effect.\n(3) But those sections have no effect in relation to—\n(a) a claim which is settled before the date on which subsection (2) comes into force (whether or not legal proceedings in relation to the claim have been commenced); or\n(b) legal proceedings which are determined before that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 partly in force; s. 4(1) in force at Royal Assent see s. 4(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/4/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:40.191737+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}