.”, and the title of the section becomes “Periodical payment orders”. (2) After section 2B of the Damages Act 1996 there is inserted— “2C Secure continuity of periodical payments 35 (1) For the purpose of section 2(1A), a court is to assume that the continuity of payment under an order is reasonably secure if— (a) the right to receive the payments would be protected by— Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Bill 3 Part 2—Periodical payments of damages (i) a guarantee under section 6 or Schedule 1, or (ii) a scheme under section 213 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (whether or not as modified by section 4 of this Act), or (b) the source of payment would be a recognised body or office-holder listed 5 in subsection (6). (2) In an order for periodical payments, a court may include provision— (a) specifying the method by which the payments are to be made, (b) requiring the person responsible for making the payments to take specified action to secure the continuity of payment, where the 10 continuity of payment is not considered by the court to be reasonably secure by virtue of subsection (1), (c) enabling an application to be made to the court for variation of provision included in the order under paragraph (a) or (b). (3) Despite inclusion in an order for periodical payments of provision of the kind 15 mentioned in subsection (2)(a), the payments may be made by a different method if under the different method— (a) the right to receive the payments is protected in one of the ways mentioned in subsection (1)(a), or (b) the source of payment is a recognised body or office-holder listed in 20 subsection (6). (4) The court may vary the order in respect of provision of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) but only if— (a) an application is made to the court in accordance with provision included in the order under subsection (2)(c), and 25 (b) the court is satisfied that the continuity of payment under the order would still be reasonably secure (with subsection (1) to be used for this too). (5) As regards cases involving future pecuniary loss, subsection (4)(a) does not prevent variation of the order under section 2F(2)(a)(v...