Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts36. Time not to run where person under disability
(1) Subject to this Division, where -
(a) a person has a cause of action;
(b) the limitation period fixed by this Act for the cause of action has commenced to run; and
(c) the person is under a disability,
in that case -
(d) the running of the limitation period is suspended for the duration of the disability; and
(e) if, but for this paragraph, the limitation period would expire before the lapse of 3 years after -
(i) the date on which he has, before the expiration of the limitation period, ceased to be under a disability; or
(ii) the date of his death,
whichever is the earlier, the limitation period is extended so as to expire 3 years after the earlier of those dates.
(2) This section applies whenever a person is under a disability, whether or not he is under the same or another disability at any time during the limitation period.
(3) This section does not apply to a cause of action to recover a penalty or forfeiture or sum by way of penalty or forfeiture, except where the person having the cause of action is an aggrieved party.
(4) This section does not operate so as to extend a limitation period to more than 30 years from the date when the cause of action arose.