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When is the deadline for limitation period where plaintiff aged 15, 16 or 17 when cause of action accrued - to age 21?

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21 years
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  • s 32 guardian suspension (subject to the 21st birthday cap in s 32(2)(a)); s 33 close relationship with defendant; s 41 court extension up to the plaintiff's 21st birthday; s 38 fraud or improper conduct.
  • For a defamation claim, s 34 modifies Division 1 - check it before applying s 31. Corrected on verification: the entry encoded count as "first-day-excluded" with rollover "next-open-day", which yields the 21st birthday itself as the last day to commence and is one day too late. Age of Majority Act 1972 (WA) s 4(1) provides that "the time at which a person attains a particular age expressed in years shall be the commencement of the relevant anniversary of the date of his birth", so at the first moment of the 21st birthday the plaintiff "has reached 21 years of age" and s 31(1) already bars the action. The last day to commence is therefore the day BEFORE the 21st birthday, which is what count "first-day-included" produces under Interpretation Act 1984 (WA) s 62(3) (period reckoned to the numerically corresponding date, less one). Rollover was also corrected to "none": s 31(1) is a status bar keyed to the plaintiff's age, not a "time limited for the doing of a thing" that can "expire or fall upon an excluded day" within Interpretation Act s 61(1)(e), so there is no roll-forward off a weekend or public holiday. Sources: Limitation Act 2005 (WA) s 31 (current consolidation [00-g0-00]) and Age of Majority Act 1972 (WA) s 4 (current consolidation [02-a0-11]), both at legislation.wa.gov.au.
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