New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LIMITATION ACT 1969 - SECT 6

6 Transitional provisions

(1) Subject to section 26, to Division 3 of Part 3 and to Schedule 5, nothing in this Act:

(a) affects an action brought or arbitration commenced before the commencement of this Act,

(b) enables an action or arbitration to be commenced or maintained which is barred at the commencement of this Act by an enactment or an Imperial enactment repealed or amended by this Act,

(c) affects the extinction of the title of a person to land under section 34 of the Imperial Act shortly entitled the Real Property Limitation Act 1833 , as adopted and applied by the Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, number three, where the period limited by that Imperial Act, as so adopted and applied, to that person for making an entry or distress or bringing any action or suit to recover the land has commenced to run before the commencement of this Act, or

(d) prevents the commencement and maintenance of an action or arbitration within the time allowed by an enactment or an Imperial enactment repealed or amended by this Act on a cause of action which accrued before the commencement of this Act, but this paragraph has effect subject to paragraphs (b) and (c).

(2) Schedule 5 has effect.