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Limitation Act, 1963

Section 31, Limitation Act: Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 31 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.

The section

31. Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc

Nothing in this Act shall,— (a) enable any suit, appeal or application to be instituted, preferred or made, for which the period of limitation prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (9 of 1908), expired before the commencement of this Act; or (b) affect any suit, appeal or application instituted, preferred or made before, and pending at, such commencement.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

The periods themselves are in the Schedule: every article, with its period and when time begins to run.

Sources

  1. India Code: Limitation Act, 1963, section 31 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.