# Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018, Section 1: Obligations to pay damages and delictual obligations


(1) The Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (“the 1973 Act”) is amended as follows.
(2) In schedule 1 (obligations affected by prescriptive periods of five years under section 6), in paragraph 1, for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—
“(d) to any obligation to pay damages (whatever the source of the obligation);
(da) to any obligation arising from delict, not being an obligation falling within any other provision of this paragraph;”.
(3) In section 11 (obligations to make reparation)—
(a) in subsection (1), for the words from “(whether” to “reparation” substitute “ to pay damages (whatever the source of the obligation) ”,
(b) the section title becomes “ Obligations to pay damages ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/15/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-scotland-act-2018/section-1
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