{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-act-1980/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-act-1980/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/58",
  "legislation_title": "Limitation Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-act-1980",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Time limit for redemption actions.",
  "text": "When a mortgagee of land has been in possession of any of the mortgaged land for a period of twelve years, no action to redeem the land of which the mortgagee has been so in possession shall be brought after the end of that period by the mortgagor or any person claiming through him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 excluded (13.10.2003) by Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9), ss. 96(2), 136(2) (with s. 129); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/58/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:05.636571+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}