Australia · Northern Territory limitations
Which limitation period and facts govern contract, tort and personal-injury limitation in the Northern Territory?
Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
- Period
- Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1)
- Trigger
- Actual first accrual of the identified cause of action
- Rule
- Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12 supplies this review’s identified branch. Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Actual first accrual of the identified cause of action. The official current linked Limitation Act reprint REPL026 is in force August 11, 2025. The retained Interpretation Act is in force April 21, 2023. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
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Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12. Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period. The actual claim classification, source anchors and completion facts require review. This interim source guide provides no unqualified computed or paid date.
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Which limitation period and facts govern contract, tort and personal-injury limitation in the Northern Territory?
Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Responsible actor. Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim.
Actual first accrual of the identified cause of action
Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim. Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12How does this provision count time?
- Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1)
- Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period.
- Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Interpretation Act section 28(1) excludes the given event day when reckoning a period from that event. Section 17 defines a year as twelve months and a month as a calendar month. The actual accrual or other identified statutory event remains necessary.
For contract, tort and personal-injury limitation, Interpretation Act section 28(2) addresses a last day for doing a thing that falls on Saturday, Sunday or a full-day public holiday where the thing may be done. Establish the actual completion place and the applicable source branch. It does not prove accrual, permission, eligibility or that a proposed court extension was granted. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12. Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period. The actual claim classification, source anchors and completion facts require review. This interim source guide provides no unqualified computed or paid date.
Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim identifies actual first accrual of the identified cause of action. Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim. Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
A weekend or full-day public holiday falls at the proposed endpoint while considering contract, tort and personal-injury limitation. For contract, tort and personal-injury limitation, Interpretation Act section 28(2) addresses a last day for doing a thing that falls on Saturday, Sunday or a full-day public holiday where the thing may be done. Establish the actual completion place and the applicable source branch. It does not prove accrual, permission, eligibility or that a proposed court extension was granted. Retain the actual completion place and source branch for contract, tort and personal-injury limitation. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period. Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). The missing or different source facts prevent treating a single generic date as the applicable limit. Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Which conditions and exceptions apply?
- Actual claimant, remedy and source event
- Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim. Actual first accrual of the identified cause of action.
- Applicable limitation branch and material facts
- Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
- Statutory reckoning and actual completion place
- For contract, tort and personal-injury limitation, Interpretation Act section 28(2) addresses a last day for doing a thing that falls on Saturday, Sunday or a full-day public holiday where the thing may be done. Establish the actual completion place and the applicable source branch. It does not prove accrual, permission, eligibility or that a proposed court extension was granted. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
- Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim. Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
- This question concerns contract, tort and personal-injury limitation. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period. It is distinct from action founded on a deed, which has its own identified statutory event and eligibility requirements.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
Which limitation period and facts govern contract, tort and personal-injury limitation in the Northern Territory?
What source period applies to contract, tort and personal-injury limitation?
Ordinarily three years from first accrual under section 12(1). Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12Which actual event controls contract, tort and personal-injury limitation?
Actual first accrual of the identified cause of action. Plaintiff with a qualifying contract, tort, recognizance or statutory-money claim must establish that event from the claim and source records before selecting a filing date.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12What must the responsible actor complete for contract, tort and personal-injury limitation?
Commence the actual action for the identified claim within its applicable limitation period. Deeds, defamation, fatal-injury actions, contribution, dust disease and child-abuse claims require their stated separate branches. Disability, confirmation and actual extension facts can also affect an otherwise applicable period.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12Does ordinary personal injury use discovery rather than accrual?
Section 12(1)(b) includes tort and breach of statutory duty. It does not create a general discovery-based personal-injury period. Any postponement or extension needs its own statutory facts.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12Does a dust-disease claim have the ordinary three years?
Section 12(2)(a) removes a limitation period for damages for personal injury arising from a dust disease. Section 12(3) defines dust disease by the pathological condition and its attribution to dust.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12What if personal injury arose from child abuse?
Section 5A permits the qualifying damages action at any time under this Act, including the specified fatal-injury and estate causes. Court powers to stay or dismiss proceedings remain preserved.
Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 5AOfficial sources and review
Provisions used (7)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 12 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 5A | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 36 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 41 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Limitation Act 1981 (NT) section 44 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Interpretation Act 1978 (NT) section 28 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Interpretation Act 1978 (NT) section 17 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |