When is the deadline for demand obligations - start of the limitation period?
The catalogue records a 2 years period from First day on which there is a failure to perform the obligation, once a demand for performance has been made. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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Calculation basis and source
- Period
- 2 years
- Trigger
- First day on which there is a failure to perform the obligation, once a demand for performance has been made
- Counting
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- Rollovers and holidays
- Holiday, closure and order treatment must be independently documented before publication.
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- Section 20 - acknowledgment of liability in respect of a claim for payment of a liquidated sum restarts the limitation period at the time of the acknowledgment, subject to the formality requirements in s 20(9) and (10) (in writing, signed, made to the claimant or the claimant's agent before expiry). Section 20(11): part payment has the same effect as a written acknowledgment.
- Practically important for loan and demand-note claims: the clock does not start until demand is made and performance fails. Encoded at two years because s 14 feeds the s 8(2)(a) discovery trigger; the fifteen-year limb runs from the same day via s 14(a). Corrected on verification: rollover changed from "next-open-day" to "review". As encoded, the engine would have rolled the two-year period running from failure to perform a demand obligation forward using the holidays array in this file, which is the Rule 94.02(1)(c) COURT-CLOSURE set. A statutory limitation period rolls over only under Interpretation Act, RSNS 1989 c 235, s 19(k), and only where the time expires or falls on a Saturday or on a "holiday" as defined in s 7(1)(j) of that Act. Easter Monday, Natal Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Boxing Day are in the court-closure list but are not s 7(1)(j) holidays, so the encoded behaviour could extend a limitation period beyond what the statute allows and tell a practitioner that a barred claim was still in time. The period itself is confirmed verbatim against the nslegislature.ca consolidation of the Limitation of Actions Act, SNS 2014 c 35 (proclaimed 4 August 2015, in force 1 September 2015).