When is the deadline for fatal accidents act claim - five year longstop from death?
The catalogue records a 5 years period from Day of the death of the deceased. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Only the narrow s 15 power to extend by not more than one month, on an application under s 12 made not earlier than three months before expiry. Never compute an extension.
- Corrected on verification: previously cited to the repealed Fatal Accidents Act, RSNB 1973, c F-7, s 8(4)(b). The statute says 'the EARLIER of', so this five-year longstop can defeat a claim whose two-year discovery period has not yet begun to run. Section 22(2): the section has effect despite any contract.