[18A Limitation of defamation and other actions]
Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (1973 c 52) | Legislation

[18A  Limitation of defamation and other actions]

[(1)     Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below and section 19A of this Act, no action for defamation [or under section 21, 22 or 23 of the 2021 Act (actionable types of malicious publication)] shall be brought unless it is commenced within a period of [one year] after the date when the right of action accrued.

[(1A)     Where—

(a)     a person publishes a statement to the public or to a section of the public (“the first publication”), and

(b)     the person subsequently publishes (whether or not to the public) the same statement or a statement that is substantially the same

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