27NTransitional

27N Transitional

(1) This Part applies to causes of action where the act or omission alleged to have resulted in the death or personal injury with which the action is concerned occurs on or after 21 May 2003.

(2) On and from 1 October 2003, this Part applies to causes of action where the act or omission alleged to have resulted in the death or personal injury with which the action is concerned occurred before 21 May 2003.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a cause of action for which proceedings were commenced in a court before 1 October 2003.

(4) Despite subsection (2), nothing in Division 2 operates to extend a period of limitation applicable to a cause of action in relation to an act or omission that occurred before 21 May 2003 to a period longer than the period of limitation that would have applied to the cause of action if this Part had not been enacted.

(5) Nothing in subsection (4) operates to prevent an application being made under Division 3 to extend a period of limitation referred to in that subsection.

S. 27N(6) inserted by No. 9/2015 s. 3.

(6) This section does not apply to a cause of action for which an action to which Division 5 applies may be brought.

Pt 2A Div. 5 (Heading and ss 27O–27R) inserted by No. 9/2015 s. 4.

Division 5—Actions for personal injury resulting from child abuse

S. 27O inserted by No. 9/2015 s. 4.