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Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018
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15Ancillary provision
(1)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act.
(2)Regulations under this section may—
(a)make different provision for different purposes,
(b)modify any enactment (including this Act).
(3)Regulations under this section containing provision that adds to, replaces or omits any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure.
(4)Otherwise, regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure.
16Consequential modifications
(1)In the 1973 Act, in schedule 1 (obligations affected by prescriptive periods of five years), paragraph 1(ba) is repealed.
(2)In the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, section 66 (which inserts paragraph 1(ba) into schedule 1 of the 1973 Act) is repealed.
17Commencement
(1)This section and sections 15 and 18 come into force on the day after Royal Assent.
(2)The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint.
(3)Regulations under subsection (2) may—
(a)include transitional, transitory or saving provision,
(b)make different provision for different purposes.
18Short title
The short title of this Act is the Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018.
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