Part 2: Limitation Periods Section 9: Restrictions on time limits to bring actions: Scotland
Subsection (1) introduces Schedule 3, Part 1 which amends the rules governing the court’s discretion to override the three-year time limit for bringing claims for personal injuries and deaths as set out in the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973; it provides that the limitation period cannot be extended beyond six years, and specifies factors to which the court must have particular regard when exercising its discretion. These changes apply only to claims for personal injuries or deaths which are connected with overseas operations.
	Subsection (2) explains that Part 2 of Schedule 3 amends the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 to ensure that where foreign limitation periods are to be applied in personal injury and/or death claims connected with overseas operations which are brought in Scotland, claimants will not benefit from more generous time limits in that foreign law.