{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-and-limitation-scotland-act-1973/section-19CA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-and-limitation-scotland-act-1973/section-19CA.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/19CA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19CA",
  "heading": "Interruption of limitation period: arbitration",
  "text": "(1) Any period during which an arbitration is ongoing in relation to a matter is to be disregarded in any computation of the period specified in section 17(2), 18(2), 18ZA(2) or (7), 18ZC(2) , 18ZD(1) or (2), 18A(1) or 18B(2) of this Act in relation to that matter.\n(2) In this section, “arbitration” means—\n(a) any arbitration in Scotland,\n(b) any arbitration in a country other than Scotland, being an arbitration an award in which would be enforceable in Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19CA inserted (7.6.2010 for specified purposes) by Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 1), ss. 23(4), 35(2) (with ss. 30, 34, 36); S.S.I. 2010/195, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19CA(1) inserted (21.4.2021) by Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (c. 18), s. 21, Sch. para. 4; S.I. 2021/396, reg. 3(c)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19CA(1) inserted (28.6.2022) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 151(4), 170(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/52/section/19CA",
    "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."
}