Amendments to Statute of Limitations 1957

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Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Definition of “judgment mortgage” substituted by s.8(1) and Sch.1 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009


Effect of amendment: Repealed (new provision)

Amending provision: Registration of Title Act, 1964, s.5 and Sch. and s.122 of S.I. 167/1966


Effect of amendment: Repealed (new provision)

Amending provision: Succession Act, 1965, s.8, Sch. 2 part IV but see Succession Act, 1965 and s.123 of S.I. 168/1966


Effect of amendment: Repealed

Amending provision: Civil Liability Act, 1961, s.5, Sch.5 part V


Effect of amendment: Restricted

Amending provision: Inserted by s. 13(8)(1) of the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act, 1980 as amended by the Consumer Rights Act 2022.


Effect of amendment: Substituted

Amending provision: Subsection (2)(c) substituted by s.38(1) of the Defamation Act 2009


Effect of amendment: Inserted

Amending provision: Subsection (3A) & (3B) inserted by s.38(1) of the Defamation Act 2009


Effect of amendment: Repealed with savings

Amending provision: Succession Act, 1965, s.8 and Sch. 2 part IV


Effect of amendment: Repealed

Amending provision: Succession Act, 1965, s.8 and Sch. 2 part IV


Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Substituted by Registration of Title Act, 1964, s. 49 (4) as amended by ss. 5 & 7 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2021


Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Deletion of subsection by Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act, 2009, s.8(1) and Sch. 1


Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Substituted by Succession Act, 1965, s.126 and Sch. 2 part IV


Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Inserted s.111A after s.111 by Civil Partnership Act 2010, s.89


Effect of amendment: Repealed

Amending provision: Succession Act, 1965, s.8, Sch. 2 part IV


Effect of amendment: Inserted

Amending provision: Statute of Limitations Amendment Act, 2000, s.2


Effect of amendment: repealed

Amending provision: Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act, 1991, s.5(4)


Effect of amendment: Substituted

Amending provision: Defamation Act, 2009 substituted by s.38(2)


Effect of amendment: Repealed

Amending provision: Civil Liability (Amendment) Act, 1964, s.6 and Sch.


Effect of amendment: Substituted

Amending provision: Stamp Duties Consolidation Act, 1999, ss.160, 163 and Sch. 4., subject to transitional provisions.


Effect of amendment: Substituted

Amending provision: Arbitration Act 2010, s.7(2)


Effect of amendment: Amended

Amending provision: Deleted by s. 29(2) and Sch. 6 of the Arbitration Act 2010