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LIMITATION ACT 2005 - SECT 35

35 .         Suspension of time while person with mental disability is without guardian

        (1)         If —

            (a)         a person is suffering a mental disability at any time after a cause of action accrues to the person; and

            (b)         during the time in which the person is suffering the mental disability the person is without a guardian,

                the time during which the person is without a guardian does not count in the reckoning of a limitation period for commencing an action on the cause of action.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1), an action on the cause of action cannot be commenced if 12 years have elapsed since the cause of action accrued.

        (3)         This section is subject to section 36.



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