The Act Section 9: Transitional and saving provision
43.Section 9 of the Act introduces the schedule which sets out specific transitional and saving provisions which are to apply to certain provisions of the Scottish Acts that are expired by section 2 of the Act.
44.Transitional provisions deal with the transition from the existing legal provision to the new for any cases in operation when the law changes in respect of which the straightforward application of the new law would not be suitable. They are therefore usually temporary in nature and become spent once all the past circumstances with which they were designed to deal have been dealt with. Saving provisions narrow or exclude the application of the new law so as to preserve the effect of a pre-existing enactment or legal rule in relation to certain cases or circumstances.