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(1) If, on the date when any right of action accrued for which a period of limitation is fixed by this Decree, the person to whom it accrued was under a disability, the period of disability shall not, subject to the subsequent provisions of this section, be taken into account in computing the relevant period of limitation, and the period of limitation shall be computed from the date when the person ceased to be under a disability or died, whichever event first occurred, notwithstanding that the period of limitation might otherwise have expired.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not affect any case where the right of action first accrued to some person not under a disability through whom the person under a disability claims.

(3) Where a right of action which has accrued to a person under a disability accrues, on the death of that person while still under a disability, to another person under a disability, no further extension of time shall be allowed by reason of the disability of the second person.

(4) This section shall not apply to an action to recover a penalty or forfeiture, or a sum by way of penalty or forfeiture, recoverable by virtue of any enactment, except where the action is brought by an aggrieved party.

(5) For the purposes of this Decree, a person shall be deemed to be under a disability while he is an infant or of unsound mind.

(6) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5) of this section a person shall be conclusively presumed to be of unsound mind while he is detained in pursuance of any enactment authorising the detention of persons of unsound mind.