Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LIMITATION ACT 2005 - SECT 8

8 .         Special provisions for certain defamation actions

        (1)         Section 15 applies to the publication of defamatory matter on or after commencement day unless subsection (2) provides otherwise.

        (2)         Section 15 does not apply to a cause of action relating to the publication of defamatory matter that accrues on or after commencement day (the "post-commencement action") if —

            (a)         the post-commencement action is one of 2 or more causes of action in proceedings commenced by the plaintiff;

            (b)         each cause of action in the proceedings accrues because of the publication of the same, or substantially the same, matter on separate occasions (whether by the same defendant or another defendant);

            (c)         one or more of the other causes of action in the proceedings accrued before commencement day (a "pre-commencement action"); and

            (d)         the post-commencement action accrued no later than 12 months after the day on which the earliest pre-commencement action in the proceedings accrued.