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CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 6

6 .         Application of this Part

        (1)         Subject to section 3A, this Part applies to the awarding of personal injury damages unless this section states otherwise.

        (2)         This Part extends to an award of personal injury damages even if the damages are sought to be recovered in an action for breach of contract or any other action.

        [(3)         deleted]

        (4)         This Part applies only if the personal injury arises out of an incident happening after the commencement of this Part.

        (5)         If —

            (a)         it cannot be ascertained whether or not the incident out of which the personal injury arises happened after the commencement of this Part; and

            (b)         the symptoms of the injury first appeared after the commencement of this Part,

                the incident is to be taken, for the purpose of subsection (4), to have happened after the commencement of this Part.

        [Section 6 amended: No. 58 of 2003 s. 11.]



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