The Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2011

JurisdictionScotland
CitationSSI 2011/268

2011 No. 268 (C. 20)

Damages

The Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2011

Made 15th June 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 17th June 2011

Coming into force 7th July 2011

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(3) and (4) of the Damages (Scotland) Act 20111and all other powers enabling them to do so.

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2011 and comes into force on 7th July 2011.

S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

the Act” means the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011; and

the 1976 Act” means the Damages (Scotland) Act 19762.

S-3 Appointed day

Appointed day

3. The appointed day for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act, in so far as they are not already in force, is 7th July 2011.

S-4 Transitional and savings provisions

Transitional and savings provisions

4.—(1) In relation to any death occurring before 4th May 2006, the Act applies—

(a)

(a) under omission of section 4(5) and the definition of “relative” in section 14(1); and

(b)

(b) instead with—

(i) any reference to a relative in relation to a person being construed in accordance with Schedule 1 to the 1976 Act; and

(ii) any reference to a person’s immediate family being construed in accordance with section 10(2) of the 1976 Act as read with that Schedule;

that is, as those provisions of the 1976 Act had effect immediately before their repeal by the Act but as if they had not been modified by section 35(4) and (5)(b) to (d) of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 20063.

(2) In relation to any death occurring on or after 4th May 2006 and before the appointed day, paragraph (d) of the definition of “relative” in section 14(1) of the Act has effect as if the words from “accepted the” to the end of that paragraph were omitted.

R CUNNINGHAM

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

15th June 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force those provisions of the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the Act”) that are not already in force, and makes certain transitional and saving provisions.

The Act received Royal Assent on 7th April 2011 and sections 18 and 19 came into force on the following day. The remaining provisions of the Act come into force...

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