{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-and-limitation-scotland-act-1973/section-18ZB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-and-limitation-scotland-act-1973/section-18ZB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/52",
  "legislation_title": "Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-and-limitation-scotland-act-1973",
  "path": "section/18ZB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18ZB",
  "heading": "Section 18ZA: extension of limitation periods",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where a person would be entitled, but for section 18ZA, to bring an action other than one in which the damages claimed are confined to damages for loss of or damage to property.\n(2) The court may, if it seems to it equitable to do so, allow the person to bring the action despite that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 18ZA-18ZC inserted (21.4.2021) by Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (c. 18), s. 21, Sch. para. 3; S.I. 2021/396, reg. 3(c)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/52/section/18ZB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:51.032439+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."
}