{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/96",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Personal Injury) (Scotland) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Damages\nMade 27th March 2017\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 27th March 2017\nComing into force 28th March 2017\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) of the Damages Act 1996 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 1(4) of that Act they have consulted the Government Actuary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.48; section 1(5) was substituted by S.I. 1999/1820, schedule 2, paragraph 126. In their application to Scotland, subsections (1) and (4) of section 1 are modified by subsection (5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/96/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:24.200161+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."
}