Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
Preamble
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Application of limitation periods under this Act
5. Actions other than personal injury actions do not revive
6. Personal injury actions -- accrual, limitation periods
7. Special provisions for certain personal injury actions relating to childbirth
8. Special provisions for certain defamation actions
9. Limitation periods under other written laws
10. Application to Crown
PART 2 -- Limitation periods
Division 1 -- Preliminary
11. Limitation periods under this Part are extendable etc. under Part 3
12. When actions commence
Division 2 -- General limitation period
13. General limitation period -- 6 years
Division 3 -- Limitation periods for particular causes of action
14. Personal injury, Fatal Accidents Act 1959 actions -- 3 years
15. Defamation -- one year from publication
16. Trespass to the person etc. -- 3 years
17. Contribution between tortfeasors -- 2 years
18. Deeds -- 12 years
19. Recovery of land -- 12 years
20. Money secured on real property or on real and personal property -- 12 years
21. Interest secured on real property or on real and personal property
22. Interest secured on personal property
23. Possession -- 12 years
24. Foreclosure -- 12 years
25. Redemption -- 12 years
26. Accounts -- limitation period for the basis of the duty to account applies
27. Equitable actions (not analogous to other actions)
28. Tax mistakenly paid -- 12 months or as provided under other Act
29. Arbitration -- limitation period for corresponding civil proceeding applies
PART 3 -- Extension or shortening of limitation periods
Division 1 -- Extension for persons under 18 years when cause of action accrues
30. Limitation periods applicable to persons under 15 when cause of action accrues
31. Limitation periods applicable to persons between 15 and 18 when cause of action accrues
32. Suspension of time while person under 18 is without guardian
33. Defendant in close relationship with person under 18 when cause of action accrues
34. Defamation
Division 2 -- Extension for persons with mental disability
35. Suspension of time while person with mental disability is without guardian
36. Defendant in close relationship with person with mental disability
37. Defamation
Division 3 -- Extension by courts
38. Court may extend time to commence actions in cases of fraud or improper conduct
39. Court may extend time to commence actions for personal injury or under Fatal Accidents Act 1959
40. Court may extend time to commence defamation actions
41. Court may extend time to commence action by person under 18 when cause of action accrues, with guardian
42. Court may extend time to commence action by person with a mental disability, with guardian
43. Jurisdiction and procedure
44. Further matters for court’s consideration on extension applications
Division 4 -- Extension or shortening by agreement
45. Agreement to extend or shorten limitation period
Division 5 -- Extension by confirmation
46. Meaning of confirmation
47. Limitation period extended by confirmation
48. Formal requirements for acknowledgments
49. Who has benefit of confirmation
50. Who is bound by confirmation
51. Effects of certain kinds of confirmation
Division 6 -- Extension of limitation periods -- other matters
52. Persons with mental disability under 18 when cause of action accrues -- most beneficial limitation period applies
53. Limitation period in case of death of certain persons if cause of action accrues to certain other persons
54. Arbitration -- extension of limitation period
PART 4 -- Accrual of particular causes of action
Division 1 -- Accrual of certain causes of action other than to recover land
55. Personal injury -- general
56. Personal injury -- asbestos related diseases
57. Survival of certain actions
58. Contributions between tortfeasors
59. Debts repayable on demand
60. Successive wrongs to goods
61. Equitable interests
62. Future interests of beneficiaries under trusts
63. Matters referable to arbitration
64. Arbitral awards
Division 2 -- Accrual of certain causes of action to recover land
65. Adverse possession
66. Dispossession or discontinuance
67. Deceased in possession
68. Grantor in possession
69. Future interests in land
70. Forfeiture
71. Rent wrongly paid
72. Tenancies
73. Beneficial co-owners of land
PART 5 -- Effect of expiration of limitation period
74. Time to commence actions may be extended despite extinguishment of rights
75. Extinguishment of right and title to land
76. No title by adverse possession against Crown
77. Future interests in land
78. Provisions in case of land held on trust
PART 6 -- Miscellaneous
79. Burden of proof
80. Grounds in equity upon which to refuse relief preserved
81. Counterclaims -- commencement
82. Joint causes of action
83. Joint liability
84. Formal entry and claim
85. Other beneficiaries
86. Limited right to recover tax
87. Limited operation of certain court orders as to refund of tax
88. Arbitrations -- commencement
[Assented to 15 November 2005]