Part 1: Main Provisions Section 12: Indemnity for health service activity: Scotland
The section enables the Scottish Ministers to provide indemnity for clinical negligence and other delictual liabilities (that is, liabilities relating to willful wrongs) arising from the NHS activities carried out in Scotland in the same circumstances as section 11 provides that the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers can provide indemnities. The Scottish Ministers also have powers to make arrangements authorising another person to provide such indemnity.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Scotland only.