When is the deadline for general limitation period (contract, tort and other causes of action)?
The catalogue records a 6 years period from the date when the cause of action first accrues to the plaintiff or to a person through whom the plaintiff claims. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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Calculation basis and source
- Period
- 6 years
- Trigger
- the date when the cause of action first accrues to the plaintiff or to a person through whom the plaintiff claims
- Counting
- The encoded calculator method must be independently documented before publication.
- Rollovers and holidays
- Holiday, closure and order treatment must be independently documented before publication.
This route remains in preparation until a pinpoint official source is recorded.
- Limitation Act 1985 (ACT) pt 3 postpones the bar in defined circumstances: s 30 (disability), s 32 (confirmation), s 33 (fraud and concealment), s 34 (mistake) and s 40 (latent damage to property and economic loss).
- Section 11 (2) yields to any other limitation period provided by the Act. Court Procedures Rules 2006 (ACT) r 6350 (3) (the 25 December to 1 January exclusion) does not extend a limitation period, because r 6350 (1) is confined to periods arising under the rules or a court order.