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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 88

Proceedings to be commenced by notice.

88.(1) Subject to this section and section 110(1) [and to Article 35 of the
Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980] and without prejudice to
the provisions of any other enactment as to the time within which proceedings
may be commenced, a court of summary jurisdiction shall not have jurisdiction
to hear and determine a complaint in a civil matter unless the complaint is
made within six months from the time when the cause of complaint arose, or,
where the cause of complaint is a continuing one, from the time such cause
last ceased to continue.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1972 NI 16 art.63(3) sch.19; subs.(3) rep. by 1980 NI 5
art.42(2)(b) sch.4

(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent a court of summary jurisdiction from
exercising the powers referred to in section 96 at any time after an order for
the periodical payment of money has been made ....

Nature of jurisdiction upon civil complaint.

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