Article 63 Time within which debt proceedings may be commenced

Northern Ireland

(1)

Subject to F1this Article F2..., debt proceedings shall not be commenced after the expiration of six years from the time when the cause of action arose.

(2)

Nothing in paragraph (1) shall affect a period of limitation prescribed by any enactment for proceedings to recover a sum which is declared by that or any other enactment to be a debt or civil debt recoverable summarily.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in art. 63(1) substituted (18.4.2011) by Cross-Border Mediation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/157), reg. 9(2) (with reg. 1(2))
F2: Words in art. 63(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Cross-Border Mediation (EU Directive) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/469), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(2) (with reg. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 4(5)(6)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)