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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 49

49.(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be under a disability
while

(a)he is an infant; or

(b)he is of unsound mind.

[(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) but without prejudice to the
generality thereof, a person shall be conclusively presumed to be of unsound
mind

(a)while he is liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under the
Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland), 1961; and

(b)while he is receiving treatment as an in-patient in any hospital or private
hospital within the meaning of that Act without being liable to be detained
thereunder, being treatment which follows without any interval a period during
which he was liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under that Act
or by virtue of any enactment repealed or replaced by that Act.]

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