LIMITATION ACT 1981
LIMITATION ACT 1981
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART I--PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Repeal and amendment
4. Interpretation
5. Saving for other enactments where limitation prescribed
5A. No limitation period for child abuse actions
6. Application to Crown
7. Act not to affect rules of equity
8. Provisions as to set-off or counter-claim
9. Transitional provisions
PART II--PERIODS OF LIMITATION
Division 1--Preliminary
10. Application of Part III
11. Shortest period of limitation to apply
Division 2--General
12. Actions in contract, tort etc.
13. Action for account
14. Action upon deed
15. Enforcement of judgment
16. Recovery of penalty or forfeiture
17. Actions under Compensation (Fatal Injuries) Act 1974
18. Enforcement of award of arbitrator
19. Successive conversions
20. Admiralty actions
21. Equitable relief
22. Arrears of income
23. Terms of relief not to revive barred rights
24. Contributions between tortfeasors
Division 3--Mortgages
25. Mortgage under Land Title Act 2000
26. Redemption
27. Actions by mortgagee
28. Action for interest
29. Mortgagor not to account for irrecoverable interest
30. Other remedies barred
Division 4--Trusts
32. Fraud on trust property
33. Action for breach of trust
34. Provision for future estates
35. Beneficiaries other than plaintiff
Division 5--Mistake
35A. Application
35B. Definition
35C. Action for recovery of certain money paid under mistake before Limitation Amendment Act 1993
35D. Action for recovery of certain money paid under mistake after Limitation Amendment Act 1993
35E. Limitation period not to be extended
PART III--POSTPONEMENT OF THE BAR
Division 1--Disability, confirmation, fraud and mistake
36. Time not to run where person under disability
37. Appointment of tutor
38. Notice to proceed
39. Infants
40. Form of notice
41. Confirmation
42. Rights of action based on fraud or deceit
43. Mistake
Division 2--General extension of period of limitation
44. Extension of periods
Division 3--Extension of limitation period for defamation
44A. Extension of limitation period by court
44B. Effect of order
44C. Prior expiry of limitation period
PART IV--MISCELLANEOUS
Division 1--Arbitration
45. Interpretation
46. Application to arbitration
47. Date when cause of action accrues
48. Date of commencement of arbitration
Division 2--General
48A. Abrogation of rule in Weldon v Neal
49. Joint rights of action
50. Joint liability
51. Regulations
PART V--TRANSITIONAL MATTERS
Division 1--Transitional matters for Defamation Act 2006
52. Application of Act to actions for defamation
Division 2--Transitional matters for Limitation Amendment (Child Abuse) Act 2017
53. Interpretation
54. Pre-existing judgments
55. Proceedings begun before the commencement
SCHEDULE
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