Latent Damage Act 1986
Time limits for negligence actions in respect of latent damage not involving personal injuries
1 Time limits for negligence actions in respect of latent damage not involving personal injuries.
2 Provisions consequential on section 1.
Accrual of cause of action to successive owners in respect of latent damage to property
3 Accrual of cause of action to successive owners in respect of latent damage to property.
Supplementary
4 Transitional provisions.
5 Citation interpretation, commencement and extent.

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Latent Damage Act 1986

1986 CHAPTER 37

An Act to amend the law about limitation of actions in relation to actions for damages for negligence not involving personal injuries; and to provide for a person taking an interest in property to have, in certain circumstances, a cause of action in respect of negligent damage to the property occurring before he takes that interest.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—