STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
 
 
- As at 23 October 2002
 
- Act 1 of 1945
 
 
 
 
 

TABLE OF PROVISIONS
 


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Name of Act

2. Defence of contributory negligence excluded in certain cases



 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- LONG TITLE
 
 
An Act to amend the law relating to liability in respect of breaches of duties
imposed by statute.
 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- SECT 1
Name of Act
 
 
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Statutory Duties (Contributory Negligence) Act
1945.
 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- SECT 2
Defence of contributory negligence excluded in certain cases
 
 
2 Defence of contributory negligence excluded in certain cases
     (1) Contributory negligence on the part of a person who has sustained
     personal injury shall not be a defence to an action for damages for
     that injury founded on a breach of a statutory duty imposed on the
     defendant for the benefit of a class of persons of which the person
     so injured was a member at the time the injury was sustained.
     (2) Subsection (1) shall apply to and in respect of:
          (a) every action of the character referred to in subsection
          (1) which is brought after the commencement of this Act,
          whether the injury in respect of which the action is
          brought was sustained before or after such commencement,
          and
          (b) every action of the character referred to in subsection
          (1) which is pending at the commencement of this Act.
 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- NOTES
 

See also:
Civil Liability Amendment (Personal Responsibility)
Bill 2002




 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- NOTES
 

Reprint history (since 1972):
Reprint No x   13 December 1979  




 

STATUTORY DUTIES (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) ACT 1945
- NOTES
 

Historical notes
The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

 _____________________________________________________________
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
|_____________________________________________________________|
Table of ActsStatutory Duties (Contributory
Negligence) Act 1945 No 1. Assented to 19.2.1945.

This Act has been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of
the Reprints Act 1972 No
48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act
1972). Order dated 30.11.1979, and published in GG No 171 of 7.12.1979, p 6150,
declaring that the Statutory Duties (Contributory
Negligence) Act 1945 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the
Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.