This section applies, in relation to an award of any payment by way of arrears of pay or damages in proceedings in Scotland on a complaint in respect of a woman’s service in any of the armed forces, for the purposes of determining the period mentioned in section 7A(9)(b) above.
Subject to subsection (3) below, that period is the period of five years which ends on the day on which the service complaint was made, except that the five years shall not be regarded as running during—
If, after regard is had to the exceptions in subsection (2) above, that period would include any time more than twenty years before the day mentioned in that subsection, that period is instead the period of twenty years which ends on that day.
Subsection (5) below applies in a case where, in accordance with regulations made under section 7A(6) above, proceedings are instituted without a service complaint having been made.
In that case, the reference in subsection (2) above to the making of the service complaint shall be read as a reference to the institution of proceedings.