[22A Ten years' prescription of obligations]
Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (1973 c 52) | Legislation

[Part IIA Prescription of Obligations and Limitation of Actions under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987]

[Prescription of Obligations]

[22A  Ten years' prescription of obligations]

[(1)     An obligation arising from liability under section 2 of the 1987 Act (to make reparation for damage caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product) shall be extinguished if a period of 10 years has expired from the relevant time unless a relevant claim was made within that period and has not been finally disposed of, and no such obligation shall come into existence after the expiration of the said period.

(2)     If, at the expiration of the period of 10 years mentioned in subsection (1) above, a relevant claim has been made but has not been finally disposed of, the obligation to which the claim relates

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