5—Provision for cases where person liable dies before or at time of
damage
Where damage has been suffered by reason of any act or omission in respect of
which a cause of action would have subsisted against any person if that person
had not died before or at the same time as the damage was suffered, there
shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been subsisting against
him before his death such cause of action in respect of that act or omission
as would have subsisted if he had died after the damage was suffered.