{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1339",
  "legislation_title": "The Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Time limit: actions founded on instruments under seal etc.",
  "text": "The following actions may not be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the cause of action accrued—\n(a) an action upon a deed or an instrument under seal other than an action upon a deed or an instrument under seal to recover—\n(i) arrears of a rentcharge or of a conventional rent; or\n(ii) any principal sum of money secured by a mortgage or other charge; or\n(iii) arrears of interest in respect of any sum of money secured by a mortgage or other charge; or\n(iv) arrears of an annuity charged on personal property;\n(b) an action to enforce an award where the arbitration agreement is a deed or under seal;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2005 NI 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 15(c) omitted (1.10.2009) by virtue of Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 105(3) (with arts. 10, 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1339/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:16.661495+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."
}