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3rd Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 51

THE LIMITATIONS ACT


Section Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
1 Overview
2 Definitions
3 Application of this Act
4(1) Relationship to other Acts
(2) Conflict with another Act
5 Act binds the Crown
BASIC LIMITATION PERIOD
6 Basic limitation period — 2 years from discovery
7 When is a claim discovered?
8 Date of injury, loss or damage — specific cases
9 Burden of proof
ULTIMATE LIMITATION PERIOD
10(1) Ultimate limitation period — 15 years
(2) Exception for Aboriginal claims — 30 years
(3) Exception re purchasers for value — 2 years
11(1) Date of act or omission — specific cases
(2) Contribution and indemnity rule
12 Burden of proof
SUSPENSION OF LIMITATION PERIODS
13 Minors
14(1) Persons under a disability
(2) Presumption of no disability
(3) Six months' extension
15(1) Notice to proceed — definition
(2) Notice to proceed re minor or person under a disability
(3) To whom notice is given
(4) Notice to Public Guardian and Trustee
(5) Requirements for notice
(6) How notice is given
(7) Notice benefits only the potential defendant
(8) No admission of liability
(9) No application to certain claims
16 Role of Public Guardian and Trustee re notice to proceed
17 Wilful concealment, etc.
NO LIMITATION PERIOD
18(1) Claims with no limitation period
(2) Sexual assault, etc.
(3) Revival of right to claim re sexual assault, etc.
(4) Limitation period in Trustee Act applies
(5) Definition of "assault"
RULES FOR SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES
Recovery of Land
19(1) Definitions
(2) Purpose
(3) Limitation on right to recovery
(4) Land subject to present interest
(5) Lease for fixed term
(6) Dispossession by a tenant
(7) Expiry of limitation terminates title
(8) Basic limitation does not apply
Acknowledgment of Liability
20(1) Acknowledgment of liability extends limitation
(2) Requirements for acknowledgment
(3) Partial payment of debt
(4) Payment of debt — promise to pay not required
(5) Claim for interest
(6) Security agreements and collateral
(7) Trustee
(8) Personal property
Successors, Principals and Agents
21(1) Claim of a successor
(2) Claim of a principal
Amending Pleadings
22 Amending pleadings
Miscellaneous
23(1) Definition of "non-judicial remedy"
(2) Non-judicial remedy limited
24 Agreement to extend limitation
25 Limitation during stay of proceedings re bankruptcy, etc.
26 Rules of equity re acquiescence and undue delay not affected
27 Conflict of laws
TRANSITIONAL
28 Transitional — definition of "former Act"
29 Proceeding commenced under former Act
30 Expiry of former limitation
31(1) Claims to which this section applies
(2) Exception
(3) Claim discovered under former Act
(4) Claim discovered under this Act
(5) No former limitation period
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
32 C.C.S.M. c. C100 amended
33 C.C.S.M. c. D30 amended
34 C.C.S.M. c. D34 amended
35 C.C.S.M. c. F15 amended
36 C.C.S.M. c. F50 amended
37(1) C.C.S.M. c. J10 amended
(2)
(3)
38 C.C.S.M. c. J39 amended
39 C.C.S.M. c. L125 amended
40 C.C.S.M. c. M100 amended
41 C.C.S.M. c. N80 amended
42 C.C.S.M. c. O5 amended
43 C.C.S.M. c. O55 amended
44 C.C.S.M. c. P60 amended
45 C.C.S.M. c. P65 amended
46 C.C.S.M. c. P93 amended
47 C.C.S.M. c. R30 amended
48 C.C.S.M. c. R39 amended
49 C.C.S.M. c. R45 amended
50 C.C.S.M. c. R117 amended
51(1) C.C.S.M. c. T160 amended
(2)
(3)
52 C.C.S.M. c. V30 amended
REPEAL, C.C.S.M. REFERENCE AND COMING INTO FORCE
53 Repeal
54 C.C.S.M. reference
55 Coming into force