(1) Subject to sections 6A and 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an enactment or an Imperial enactment repealed or amended by this Act,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enactment or an Imperial enactment repealed or amended by this Act on a cause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).
