Limitation Act 1969 (NSW)

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the limitation of actions; to repeal section 5 of the Imperial Act known as the Common Informers Act 1588 and certain other Imperial enactments; to repeal the unrepealed portion of the Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of William the Fourth number seventeen and certain other enactments; to amend the Compensation to Relatives Act of 1897, as amended by subsequent Acts, and certain other enactments; to make further provision concerning estates tail; and for purposes connected therewith.

Sections (115)

s 1 — Name of Act and commencement
s 2 — Construction
s 5 — Saving
s 6 — Transitional provisions
s 6A — No limitation period for child abuse actions
s 7 — Other limitations
s 8 — Saving of specified enactments
s 9 — Acquiescence etc
s 10 — The Crown
s 11 — Definitions
s 11A — Notes
s 12 — Relationship to Part 3
s 13 — More than one bar
s 14 — General
s 14A — Frustrated contract
s 14B — Defamation
s 14C — Defamation—single publication rule
s 15 — Accounts
s 16 — Deed
s 17 — Judgment
s 18 — Penalty and forfeiture
s 18A — Personal injury
s 19 — Compensation to relatives
s 20 — Arbitral award
s 21 — Successive wrongs to goods
s 22 — Shipping
s 23 — Equitable relief
s 24 — Arrears of income
s 25 — Relief against forfeiture of lease
s 26 — Contribution between tort-feasors
s 27 — General
s 28 — Accrual—dispossession or discontinuance
s 29 — Accrual—deceased in possession
s 30 — Accrual—grantor in possession
s 31 — Accrual—future interests
s 32 — Forfeiture and breach of condition
s 33 — Rent wrongly paid
s 34 — Tenancies
s 35 — Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1948
s 36 — Equitable interest
s 37 — Settled land
s 38 — Adverse possession
s 39 — Formal entry and claim
s 40 — Mortgage under Real Property Act 1900
s 41 — Redemption
s 42 — Action for principal, possession or foreclosure
s 43 — Action for interest
s 44 — Adjustment of interest
s 45 — Power of sale etc
s 46 — Mortgage of ship
s 47 — Fraud and conversion; trust property
s 48 — Breach of trust
s 49 — Accrual—future interest
s 50 — Beneficiaries other than the plaintiff
s 50A — Application of Division—kinds of causes of action
s 50B — Definitions
s 50C — Limitation period for personal injury actions
s 50D — Date cause of action is discoverable
s 50E — Special limitation period for minors injured by close relatives
s 50F — Effect of disability on limitation period
s 51 — Ultimate bar
s 52 — Disability
s 53 — Notice to proceed
s 54 — Confirmation
s 55 — Fraud and deceit
s 56 — Mistake
s 56A — Extension of limitation period by court
s 56B — Effect of order
s 56C — Costs
s 56D — Prior expiry of limitation period
s 57 — Purpose of this Subdivision
s 57A — This Subdivision applies only to old causes of action
s 57B — Interpretation
s 58 — Ordinary action
s 59 — Surviving action
s 60 — Compensation to relatives
s 60A — Purpose of this Subdivision
s 60B — Subdivision applies only to new causes of action
s 60C — Ordinary action (including surviving action)
s 60D — Compensation to relatives
s 60E — Matters to be considered by court
s 60F — Purpose of this Subdivision
s 60G — Ordinary action (including surviving action)
s 60H — Compensation to relatives
s 60I — Matters to be considered by court
s 60J — Operation of this Subdivision
s 60K — Effect of order
s 60L — Costs
s 60M — Prior expiry of limitation period or extinction of right
s 61 — Prior bar ineffective
s 62 — Evidence
s 62A — Extension of 12 year long-stop limitation period
s 62B — Matters to be considered in determining application for extension of 12 year long-stop limitation period
s 62C — Special provisions for compensation to relatives action
s 62D — Extension of limitation period where irrational failure to bring action for minor
s 62E — Costs
s 62F — Effect of expiry of limitation period prior to extension
s 63 — Debt, damages etc
s 64 — Account
s 65 — Property
s 66 — Instrument under Real Property Act
s 67 — Future interest in land
s 68 — Possessory lien
s 68A — Extinction of right or title must be alleged in proceedings
s 69 — Interpretation
s 70 — Application of this Act
s 71 — Accrual
s 72 — Commencement
s 73 — Extension of limitation period
s 73A — Defamation—effect of provisions concerning electronic defamatory publications on other laws
s 74 — Set off etc
s 75 — Joint right
s 76 — Joint liability
s 77 — Rules of Court
s 78 — Characterisation of limitation laws

Sourced from the New South Wales Legislation website at 8 June 2026. For the latest information on New South Wales Government legislation please go to https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.