Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act, 2000

Saver in relation to court's power to dismiss on ground of delay.

3.—Nothing in section 48A of the Statute of Limitations, 1957 (inserted by section 2 of this Act), shall be construed as affecting any power of a court to dismiss an action on the ground of there being such delay between the accrual of the cause of action and the bringing of the action as, in the interests of justice, would warrant its dismissal.