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Version date: 27 December 2016 - onwards

11A. Limitation of actions for damages for infringements of competition law.

(1) An action for damages under subsection (1) of section 14 of the Act of 2002 shall not be brought after the expiration of 6 years from the latest occurring of the following dates:

(a) the date on which the infringement of competition law to which the cause of action relates ceased;

(b) the date on which the person in whom the cause of action vests came to know or could reasonably be expected to have come to know of the acts or omissions that constituted such infringement;

(c) the date on which that person came to know or could reasonably be expected to have come to know that those acts or omissions constituted such an infringement;

(d) the date on which that person came to know or could reasonably be expected to have come to know that the infringement caused harm (within the meaning of the Directive) to that person;

(e) the date on which that person came to know or could reasonably be expected to have come to know the identity of the infringer concerned.

(2) Any period during which -

(a) an investigation under -