Queensland Consolidated Acts

PERSONAL INJURIES PROCEEDINGS ACT 2002 - SECT 19

19 Legal disabilities

(1) A claimant’s obligation to comply with this division is suspended while the claimant is under a legal disability.

Note—

If the claimant is a child, under section 9 (4) a parent or guardian of the child may give the notice mentioned in section 9 for the child.

(2) A period within which the obligation is to be complied with begins when the claimant’s legal disability ends and, to give effect to this part, this chapter is to be read as though a reference to the day the incident giving rise to the personal injury happened were a reference to the day the claimant’s legal disability ends, and with other necessary changes.

(3) This section does not prevent a claimant, or a person acting for the claimant, from complying with an obligation under this chapter while the claimant is under a legal disability.

(4) A claimant is under a legal disability for this section in the circumstances in which a person is taken to be under a disability for the Limitation of Actions Act 1974 .