Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill 13 Part 4A—Review of operation of Act P ART 4A R EVIEW OF OPERATION OF A CT 18A Review of operation of Act (1) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after the end of the 5 year period, 5 review the operation of— (a) Parts 1 to 3, (b) Part 4, and lay before the Scottish Parliament a report on that review. (2) The report on the review of Parts 1 to 3 must, in particular, contain information about 10 the effect of the operation of section 8 on access to justice and the administration of Scottish courts. (2A) The report on the review of Part 4 must, in particular, contain information about the effect of the operation of section 17 on access to justice and the administration of Scottish courts. 15 (3) Each report must include a statement by the Scottish Ministers setting out— (a) whether they intend to bring forward proposals to modify any provision of this Act, and (b) where no such proposals are to be brought forward, their reasons for not doing so. (4) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after a report has been laid before 20 the Parliament, publish the report in such a manner as they consider appropriate. (5) In this section, “the 5 year period” means the period of 5 years beginning with— (a) in the case of the review of Parts 1 to 3, the day of Royal Assent, (b) in the case of the review of Part 4, the day on which the first act of sederunt under section 18(1) comes into force. 25 P ART 5 G ENERAL PROVISION 19 Regulations (1) Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under this Act includes power to make— 30 (a) incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision, (b) different provision for different purposes. (2) Regulations under section 4(1), 5(1), 6(8), 7(3) or 18ZA(1) are subject to the affirmative procedure. 35 (3) Regulations under section 20(1)— (a) which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure, (b) otherwise, are subject to the negative procedure. 14 Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill Part 5—General provision (4) This section does not apply to regulations under section 22(2). 20 Ancillary provision (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for 5 the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act or any provision made under it. (2) Regulations under this section may modify any enactment (including this Act). 21 Meaning of “court” In this Act, in relation to civil proceedings in the sheriff court, a reference to the court 10 includes a reference to the sheriff conducting the proceedings. 22 Commencement (1) This Part comes into force on the day after Royal Assent. (1A) Part 4A comes into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the day of Royal Assent. 15 (2) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint. (3) Regulations under subsection (2) may— (a) include transitional, transitory or saving provision, (b) make different provision for different purposes. 20 23 Short title The short title of this Act is the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018.