{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southern-rhodesia-legal-proceedings-and-public-liabilities-order-1979/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1601",
  "legislation_title": "The Southern Rhodesia (Legal Proceedings and Public Liabilities) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southern-rhodesia-legal-proceedings-and-public-liabilities-order-1979",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Proceedings against, and liabilities of, Southern Rhodesia Government",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of any proceedings in any court of law in any part of the United Kingdom for the enforcement of any liability of the Crown arising in respect of the Government of Southern Rhodesia relating to stock issued by that Government or stock issued by the Government of the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland for which the Government of Southern Rhodesia became responsible under the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Dissolution) Order in Council 1963, no period of time between 11th November 1965 and the day on which paragraph (3)of this Article expires shall be taken into account in the calculation of any time limit imposed by any law in force in that part of the United Kingdom relating to prescription or to the limitation of actions.\n(2) Where—\n(a) any civil proceedings, other than proceedings to which paragraph (1) of this Article applies, could have been brought in any part of the United Kingdom at any time between 11th November 1965 and the commencement of this Order against the Crown or any other person for the purpose of obtaining a judgment, decree or other order that the Crown was under a liability arising in respect of the Government of Southern Rhodesia to make a payment to another person; and\n(b) the time limit for bringing such proceedings imposed by any law in force in that part of the United Kingdom relating to prescription or to the limitation of actions has expired before the commencement of this Order, or will expire within six months thereof,\nthat time limit shall not apply in relation to the bringing of those proceedings within the period of six months from the commencement of this Order.\n(3) So long as this paragraph is in operation, no person having possession in the United Kingdom of any moneys of the Crown in right of the Government of Southern Rhodesia, being moneys received by him on or after the relevant date, shall without the consent of a Secretary of State use those moneys for the purpose of satisfying, in whole or in part, a liability of the Crown arising in respect of that Government to make a payment to another person, being a liability which accrued before the relevant date or a liability to which paragraph (1) of this Article applies; and the provisions of this paragraph shall have effect notwithstanding any judgment, decree or other order given in civil proceedings in any part of the United Kingdom to the effect that any moneys in the United Kingdom are moneys of the Crown in right of that Government available in the United Kingdom to satisfy any such liability as aforesaid.\n(4) Paragraph (3) of this Article shall expire on such day after the commencement of this Order as may be specified by a Secretary of State by notice in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1601/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:09:10.378943+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."
}