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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 No. 1311
8.—(1) This regulation applies where—
(a)a limitation time limit relates to a right of action in respect of a moratorium debt,
(b)a moratorium in relation to the debt starts before the limitation time limit expires, and
(c)if not extended by this regulation, the limitation time limit would expire before the end of the period of eight weeks beginning with the day on which the moratorium ends.
(2) For the purposes of bringing an action in respect of a moratorium debt, the limitation time limit expires instead at the end of the period of eight weeks beginning with the day on which the moratorium ends.
(3) Where more than one limitation time limit applies in relation to a right of action in respect of a moratorium debt, the extension by paragraph (2) of one of those time limits does not affect the others.
(4) In this regulation, “limitation time limit” means any time limit applicable, whether under the Limitation Act 1980(1) or any other enactment, to the bringing of an action.
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