Limitation Act 1975.
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Type of law
Legislation
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Abstract
This Act concerns limitations applying to legal action such as actions of contract and tort; actions to recover land, registered title and rent; actions to recover money secured by a mortgage or charge or to recover proceeds of the sale of land; actions in respect of trust property or the personal estate of deceased person; and actions against the government and public authorities, etc. The Act also concerns accrual of right and relative limitations and extension of limitation periods in case of disability, acknowledgment, part payment, fraud and mistake. Nothing in this Act applies to any customary land or titles. This Act does not apply to any action or arbitration for which a period of limitation is prescribed by any other enactment.
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Long title of text
An Act to consolidate and make provision for the limitation of actions and arbitrations.
Notes
Consolidated version as at 31 December 2014 of Act No. 24 of 1975 as amended last by Act No. 22 of 2013. Revision notes can be found at the end of the text.The Limitation Act 1950 (NZ) is repealed.This Act is subject to the Lands, Surveys and Environment Act 1989, the Land Titles Registration Act 2008, and to any enactment relating to the registration of title to any land, so far as this Act is not inconsistent with any provision of those Acts or enactment.
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Consolidated Acts of Samoa 2014.
Source language
English
Legislation Amendment
No