Section 25: Short title, commencement and extent.

Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 · 1973 c.52

Part III: Supplemental

25(1)

This Act may be cited as the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973.

25(2)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this Act shall come into operation, as follows:—

(a) Parts II and III of this Act, Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act and Part II of Schedule 5 to this Act shall come into operation on the date on which this Act is passed;

(b) except as aforesaid this Act shall come into operation on the expiration of three years from the said date.

25(3)

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25(4)

This Act extends to Scotland only.

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