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LIMITATION OF ACTIONS ACT 1958 - SECT 27E

Limitation period for personal injury actions—persons under a disability

    (1)     This section applies to a cause of action to which this Part applies which is founded on a personal injury to a person who was under a disability at the date of the act or omission alleged to have resulted in the personal injury.

    (2)     An action in respect of a cause of action to which this section applies shall not be brought after the expiration of whichever of the following periods is the first to expire—

        (a)     the period of 6 years from the date on which the cause of action is discoverable by the plaintiff;

        (b)     the period of 12 years from the date of the act or omission alleged to have resulted in the personal injury with which the action is concerned.

S. 27F inserted by No. 60/2003 s. 14.



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