20-year negative prescription

8Start point of prescriptive period for obligations to pay damages

In section 11 (obligations to make reparation) of the 1973 Act, for subsection (4) substitute—

4

For the purposes of section 7 of this Act, any obligation referred to in subsection (1) of this section is to be regarded as having become enforceable on—

a

the date on which the act or omission occurred (or the last such date, where there was more than one act or omission), or

b

where the act or omission was a continuing one, the date on which it ceased.