{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-scotland-act-2011/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-scotland-act-2011/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/7",
  "legislation_title": "Damages (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Transmission of relative's rights to executor",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where liability to pay damages to a relative (“R”) has arisen under section 4 or 6 but R dies.\n(2) If the right to damages is vested in R immediately before R's death that right is transmissible to R's executor (“E”); but in determining the amount of damages payable to E by virtue of this section, the only period to which the court is to have regard is the period ending immediately before R's death.\n(3) In a case where––\n(a) section 5 applies, and\n(b) R died before 27th April 2007,\nany right of R to damages under that section is to be taken, for the purposes of subsection (2), to have vested in R on A's death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 7.7.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/268, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/7/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:07.171263+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."
}