Western Australian Current Acts

LIMITATION ACT 1935 - SECT 16

16 .         In cases of infancy, etc., 6 years to be allowed from the termination of the disability or previous death

                If at the time at which the right of any person to make an entry or distress, or to bring an action to recover any land or rent, shall have first accrued as aforesaid, such person shall have been under any of the disabilities hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) infancy, idiocy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind, then such person, or the person claiming through him, may, notwithstanding the period of 12 years, or 6 years (as the case may be) hereinbefore limited shall have expired, make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover such land or rent, at any time within 6 years next after the time at which the person to whom such right shall first have accrued shall have ceased to be under such disability, or shall have died (whichever of those 2 events shall have first happened).

        [Section 16 amended: No. 28 of 2003 s. 120(2).]