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(1)This section applies, in relation to an award of any payment by way of arrears of remuneration or damages in proceedings in Scotland in respect of a woman’s employment, for the purpose of determining the period mentioned in section 2(5)(b) above.
(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, that period is the period of five years which ends on the day on which the proceedings were instituted, except that the five years shall not be regarded as running during—
(a)any time when the woman was induced, by reason of fraud on the part of, or error induced by the words or conduct of, the employer or any person acting on his behalf, to refrain from commencing proceedings (not being a time after she could with reasonable diligence have discovered the fraud or error), or
(b)any time when she was under a disability.
(3)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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 2ZB 2ZC inserted (19.07.2003) (with application as mentioned in reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by reg. 5, S.I. 2003/1656
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