New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LIMITATION ACT 1969 - SECT 18

18 Penalty and forfeiture

(1) An action on a cause of action to recover a penalty or forfeiture, or sum by way of penalty or forfeiture, recoverable by virtue of an enactment, is not maintainable if brought after the expiration of a limitation period of two years running from the date on which the cause of action first accrues to the plaintiff or to a person through whom the plaintiff claims.

(2) In this section
"penalty" does not include a fine to which a person is liable on conviction for a criminal offence.