Contents (1969 - 31)
Limitation Act 1969 No 31
Status information

Long title

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act and commencement
2 Construction
3, 4 (Repealed)
5 Saving
6 Transitional provisions
7 Other limitations
8 Saving of specified enactments
9 Acquiescence etc
10 The Crown
11 Definitions
11A Notes

Part 2 Periods of limitation and related matters

Division 1 Preliminary

12 Relationship to Part 3
13 More than one bar

Division 2 General

14 General
14A Frustrated contract
14B Defamation
15 Accounts
16 Deed
17 Judgment
18 Penalty and forfeiture
18A Personal injury
19 Compensation to relatives
20 Arbitral award
21 Successive wrongs to goods
22 Shipping
23 Equitable relief
24 Arrears of income
25 Relief against forfeiture of lease
26 Contribution between tort-feasors

Division 3 Land

27 General
28 Accrual—dispossession or discontinuance
29 Accrual—deceased in possession
30 Accrual—grantor in possession
31 Accrual—future interests
32 Forfeiture and breach of condition
33 Rent wrongly paid
34 Tenancies
35 Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1948
36 Equitable interest
37 Settled land
38 Adverse possession
39 Formal entry and claim

Division 4 Mortgages

40 Mortgage under Real Property Act 1900
41 Redemption
42 Action for principal, possession or foreclosure
43 Action for interest
44 Adjustment of interest
45 Power of sale etc
46 Mortgage of ship

Division 5 Trusts

47 Fraud and conversion; trust property
48 Breach of trust
49 Accrual—future interest
50 Beneficiaries other than the plaintiff

Division 6 Personal injury actions

50A Application of Division—kinds of causes of action
50B Definitions
50C Limitation period for personal injury actions
50D Date cause of action is discoverable
50E Special limitation period for minors injured by close relatives
50F Effect of disability on limitation period

Part 3 Postponement of the bar

Division 1 General

51 Ultimate bar

Division 2 Disability, confirmation, fraud and mistake

52 Disability
53 Notice to proceed
54 Confirmation
55 Fraud and deceit
56 Mistake

Division 2A Defamation

56A Extension of limitation period by court
56B Effect of order
56C Costs
56D Prior expiry of limitation period

Division 3 Personal injury cases arising before 2002 amendments

Subdivision 1 Discovery

57 Purpose of this Subdivision
57A This Subdivision applies only to old causes of action
57B Interpretation
58 Ordinary action
59 Surviving action
60 Compensation to relatives

Subdivision 2 Secondary limitation period

60A Purpose of this Subdivision
60B Subdivision applies only to new causes of action
60C Ordinary action (including surviving action)
60D Compensation to relatives
60E Matters to be considered by court

Subdivision 3 Discretionary extension for latent injury etc

60F Purpose of this Subdivision
60G Ordinary action (including surviving action)
60H Compensation to relatives
60I Matters to be considered by court
60J Operation of this Subdivision

Subdivision 4 General

60K Effect of order
60L Costs
60M Prior expiry of limitation period or extinction of right
61 Prior bar ineffective
62 Evidence

Division 4 Personal injury cases arising after 2002 amendments

62A Extension of 12 year long-stop limitation period
62B Matters to be considered in determining application for extension of 12 year long-stop limitation period
62C Special provisions for compensation to relatives action
62D Extension of limitation period where irrational failure to bring action for minor
62E Costs
62F Effect of expiry of limitation period prior to extension

Part 4 Miscellaneous

Division 1 Extinction of right and title

63 Debt, damages etc
64 Account
65 Property
66 Instrument under Real Property Act
67 Future interest in land
68 Possessory lien
68A Extinction of right or title must be alleged in proceedings

Division 2 Arbitration

69 Interpretation
70 Application of this Act
71 Accrual
72 Commencement
73 Extension of limitation period

Division 3 General

74 Set off etc
75 Joint right
76 Joint liability
77 Rules of Court
78 Characterisation of limitation laws

 Schedule 1 Transferred provisions—Notice of Action and Other Privileges Abolition Act 1977

 Schedules 2, 3 (Repealed)

 Schedule 4 Extinction of right and title

 Schedule 5 Further transitional provisions

Historical notes