Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) An action for damages for negligence, nuisance, or breach of duty (whether that duty exists by virtue of a contract or a provision made by or under an enactment or independently of any contract or any such provision) where the damages claimed by the plaintiff for the negligence, nuisance, or breach of duty consist of, or include, damages in respect of personal injuries to any person shall not, subject to this section, be brought after the expiration of a period of 3 years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
(1A) This section applies only to an action where the cause of action accrued before the commencement day.
(2) An action for damages under the Fatal Accidents Act 1934 in respect of the death of a person shall be deemed to be such an action as is referred to in subsection (1), the cause of which accrued on the death of that person.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, upon application being made by the person claiming the damages referred to therein a judge, after hearing such of the persons likely to be affected by that application as he may think fit, may, if he thinks that in all the circumstances of the case it is just and reasonable so to do, extend the period limited for the bringing of the action for such period as he thinks necessary, but so that the period within which the action may be brought does not exceed a period of 6 years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
(4) The powers conferred on a judge by subsection (3) may be exercised notwithstanding that the period limited by subsection (1) for the bringing of the action may have expired.
(5) For the purposes of this section personal injuries include any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition.