{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2002/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2002/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/46",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Personal Injury) (Scotland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes 2.5% as the rate of return which, under section 1 of the Damages Act 1996, courts are required to take into account when calculating damages for future pecuniary loss in an action for personal injury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/46/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:12.625942+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."
}