(1) In this Act,
unless the context otherwise requires, or some other meaning is clearly
intended—
"action" includes legal proceedings of all kinds;
"child" means a person under the age of 18 years;
"land" includes messuages and all other corporeal hereditaments, and any
estate or interest in any land;
"limitation law" means—
(a) a
law of this State (including this Act) that provides for the limitation or
exclusion of liability, or the barring of a right of action, if an action is
not commenced within a particular time limit;
(b) a
law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth, or of New Zealand,
that provides for the limitation or exclusion of liability, or the barring of
a right of action, if an action is not commenced within a particular time
limit;
"person" includes any number of persons, any body corporate or collegiate, and
any class of creditors;
"person through whom another person claims" means any person by through or
under or by an act of whom the person so claiming became entitled to the
estate or interest claimed as heir issue in tail successor special or general
occupant executor administrator legatee spouse assignee appointee devisee or
otherwise;
"rent" includes all services for which a distress may be made and all
annuities or periodical sums of money charged upon any land.
(2) This Act shall be
construed subject to the Real Property Act 1886 .