(d) actions to recover any sum recoverable by virtue of any Ordin- ance or imperial enactment, other than a penalty or forfeiture or sum by way of penalty or forfeiture:
Provided that-
() in the case of actions for damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of duty (whether the duty exists by virtue of a contract or of provision made by or under any Ordinance or imperial enactment or independently of any contract or any such pro- vision) where the damages claimed by the plaintiff for the negligence, nuisance or breach of duty consist of or include damages in respect of personal injuries to any person, this subsection shall have effect as if for the reference to six years there were substituted a reference to three years; and
(ii) nothing in this subsection shall be taken to refer to any action
to which section 6 applies.
(2) An action for an account shall not be brought in respect of any matter which arose more than six years before the commencement of the action.
(3) An action upon a specialty shall not be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the cause of action accrued:
Provided that this subsection shall not affect any action for which a shorter period of limitation is prescribed by any other provision of this Ordinance.
(4) An action shall not be brought upon any judgment after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the judgment became enforceable, and no arrears of interest in respect of any judgment debt shall be recovered after the expiration of six years from the date on which the interest became due.
(5) An action to recover any penalty or forfeiture, or sum by way of penalty or forfeiture, recoverable by virtue of any Ordinance or imperial enactment shall not be brought after the expiration of two years from the date on which the cause of action accrued:
Provided that for the purposes of this subsection the expression "penalty" shall not include a fine to which any person is liable on con- viction of a criminal offence.
(6) Subsection (1) shall apply to an action to recover seamen's wages, but save as aforesaid this section shall not apply to any cause of action within the Admiralty jurisdiction of the Supreme Court which is enforceable in rem.
(7) This section shall not apply to any claim for specific perform- ance of a contract or for an injunction or for other equitable relief. except in so far as any provision thereof may be applied by the court by analogy in like manner as the corresponding enactment contained in the Limitation Act 1939 is applied in the English Courts,
5.
(2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 21).
successive
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(1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or Limitation in wrongful detention of a chattel has accrued to any person and, before case of be recovers possession of the chattel, a further conversion or wrongful conversions detention takes place, no action shall be brought in respect of the further and extinc conversion or detention after the expiration of six years from the accrual of owner of of the cause of action in respect of the original conversion or detention. converted
goods. (2) Where any such cause of action has accrued to any person and 2 & 3 Geo. 5,
c. 21, 1.3. the period prescribed for bringing that action and for bringing any action in respect of such a further conversion or wrongful detention as aforesaid has expired and he has not during that period recovered possession of the chattel, the title of that person to the chattel sball be extinguished.
6 (1) Where under section 2 of the Tortfeasors Ordinance a Time limit
for claiming tortfcasor (in this section referred to as "the first tortfeasor") becomes contribution entitled after the commencement of this Ordinance to a right to recover betweca contribution in respect of any damage from another tortfessor, no action fortfessors. to recover contribution by virtue of that right shall (subject to subsection *. 4(1) and (2). (3) of this section) be brought after the end of the period of two years (Cap. 28). from the date on which that right accrued to the first tortfeasor.
(2) For the purpose of this section the date on which a right to recover contribution in respect of any damage accrues to a fortfeasor (in this subsection referred to as "the relevant date") shall be ascer- tained as follows, that is to say-
(c) if the tortfeasor is held liable in respect of that damage by a judgment given in any civil proceedings, or an award made on any arbitration, the relevant date shall be the date on which the judgment is given or the date of the award, as the case may be
(b) if, in any case not falling within paragraph (a), the tortfeasor admits liability in favour of one or more persons in respect of that damage the relevant date shall be the earliest date on
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