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The Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

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Persons under a disability

47.—(1) For the purposes of this Order, a person is under a disability while—

(a)he is an infant; or

(b)he is of unsound mind.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a person is of unsound mind if he is a person who, by reason of mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1), is incapable of managing and administering his property and affairs.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2), a person is to be conclusively presumed for the purposes of that paragraph to be of unsound mind—

(a)while he is liable to be detained in hospital for treatment or subject to guardianship under the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; and

(b)while he is receiving treatment as an in-patient in any hospital or private hospital within the meaning of that Order without being liable to be detained thereunder, being treatment which follows without any interval a period during which he was liable to be detained in hospital for treatment or subject to guardianship under that Order.

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