Amendment of Law Reform Act

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 46, 24 February 1938, Page 7

Amendment of Law Reform Act

ATTORNEY-GENERAL NONCOMMITTAL Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. “The Prime Minister is in charge <of the order j>aper. It is not for me to say whether such a measure will be placed on it for consideration, ’ 7 said the Attorney-General, Hon. H. G. R. Mason, when asked w'hether Parliament, at the session to bo resumed next week, would be called on to consider a modifying amendment to the Law Reform Act, 1936. {Section 3 (1) of the Law Reiurm Act, in abolishing the principle that personal action ceases with the death of a person except in regard to three special causes of action, provides that, on the death of any person, all causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against or, as tho case may be, for the benefit of iiis estate. The New Zealand Law Journal stated that it had been informed last October that the Attorney-General proposed introducing an amendment and that a Bill had already been drafted* Mr. Mason said to-day that the session had been adjourned for consideration of the national superannuation scheme and what other work would be got iii was not for him j,o cay.