CAP. 22
Limitation of Actions
[Rev. 2012]
(5) In this section, “appropriate advice” in relation to any fact or
circumstances, means the advice of a competent person qualified, in their
respective spheres, to advise on the medical, legal or other aspects of that fact or
those circumstances, as the case may be.
31. Part to apply to other laws of limitation
Where a period of limitation is prescribed for any action or arbitration by any
other written law, that written law shall be construed as if Part III of this Act were
incorporated in it.
PART IV – ACQUISITION OF EASEMENTS
32. Means by which easements may be acquired
(1) Where—
(a) the access and use of light or air to and for any building have been
enjoyed with the building as an easement; or
(b) any way or watercourse, or the use of any water, has been enjoyed
as an easement; or
(c) any other easement has been enjoyed,
peaceably and openly as of right, and without interruption, for twenty years, the
right to such access and use of light or air, or to such way or watercourse or use
of water, or to such other easement, is absolute and indefeasible.
(2) The said period of twenty years is a period (whether commencing before
or after the commencement of this Act) ending within the two years immediately
preceding the institution of the action in which the claim to which the period relates
is contested.
33. Where servient tenement held for limited interest or leased
Where any land upon, over or from which any easement has been enjoyed
or derived has been held for or by virtue of an interest for life or a term of
years exceeding three years, the time while the easement is enjoyed during the
continuance of the interest or term is excluded in the computation of the period of
twenty years if the claim is, within three years next after the determination of the
interest or term, resisted by the person entitled on such determination to the land.
PART V – GENERAL
34. Application of limitation law to arbitration
(1) This Act and any other written law relating to the limitation of actions apply
to arbitrations as they apply to actions.
(2) Where a submission contains a term that no cause of action shall accrue
in respect of a matter, the cause of action, for the purposes of this Act and of any
other written law relating to the limitation of actions (whether in their application to
arbitration or to other proceedings), accrues in respect of any such matter at the
time when it would have accrued but for that term in the submission.
(3) For the purposes of this Act and of any other written law relating to the
limitation of actions, an arbitration is taken to be commenced when one party to
the arbitration serves on the other party a notice requiring him to appoint an
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