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2011 Legislative Session: 3rd Session, 39th Parliament

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MR. RALPH SULTAN

BILL M 214 – 2011

LIMITATION ACT

AMENDMENT ACT, 2011

This bill would create an ultimate limitation period with respect to the occupations of licensed professional engineer or geoscientist, professional architect, licensed dentist or a licensed accountant.

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Section 8 (

i) of the Limitation Act (RSBC 1996) c. 266 is amended by deleting the word " or " in paragraph (

b) and adding the following:

(

c) against a licensed professional engineer or geoscientist, or a professional architect, licensed accountant, or a licensed dentist based on professional negligence or malpractice, after the expiration of 10 years from the date on which the act or omission on which the claim is based took place, or.

Explanatory Note

This bill would create an ultimate limitation period with respect to the occupations of licensed professional engineer or geoscientist, professional architect, licensed dentist or a licensed accountant.

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