[23B Overseas armed forces actions: restriction of foreign prescription and limitation law]
Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (1973 c 52) | Legislation

[23B  Overseas armed forces actions: restriction of foreign prescription and limitation law]

[(1)     Subsection (3) applies where—

(a)     the law of a country other than Scotland relating to the extinction of an obligation or the limitation of time within which an action may be brought to enforce an obligation is to be applied by virtue of section 23A(1) in an overseas armed forces personal injuries action, and

(b)     the commencement condition applies in relation to that action,

and in this section the law mentioned in paragraph (a) that is to be applied in that action is referred to as “the relevant

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