{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2017/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-scotland-order-2017/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes minus 0.75 per cent 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. This Order also revokes the Damages (Personal Injury) (Scotland) Order 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/96/note",
    "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."
}