Section 15 of Limitation Act "Exclusion of time in certain other cases"
(1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit or application for the execution of a decree, the institution or execution of which has been stayed by injunction or order, the time of continuance of the injunction or order, the day on which it was issued or made, and the day on which it was withdrawn, shall be excluded.
(2) In computing the period of limitation for any suit of which notice has been given, or for which the previous consent or sanction of the Government or any other authority is required, in accordance with the requirements of any law for the time being in force, the period of such notice or, as the case may be, the time required for obtaining such consent or sanction shall be excluded.
Explanation - In excluding the time required for obtaining
the consent or sanction of the Government or any other
authority, the date on which the application was made
obtaining the consent or sanction and the date of receipt of
the order of the Government or other authority shall both be
counted.
(3) In computing the period of limitation for any suit or
application for execution of decree by any receiver of
interim receiver appointed in proceedings for the
adjudication of a person as an insolvent or by any
liquidator or provisional liquidator appointment in
proceedings for the winding up of a company, the period
beginning with the date of institution of such proceeding
and ending with the expiry of three months from the date of
appointment of such receiver or liquidator, as the case may
be, shall be excluded.
(4) In computing the period of limitation for a suit for
possession by a purchaser at a sale in execution of a
decree, the time during which a proceeding to set aside the
sale has been prosecuted shall be excluded.
(5) In computing the period of limitation for any suit the
time during which the defendant has been absent from India
and from the territories outside India under the
administration of the Central Government, shall be excluded.
Section 16
of Limitation Act "Effect of death on or before the
accrual of the right to sue"
(1) Where a person who would, if he were living, have a right to institute a suit or make an application dies before the right accrues, or where a right to institute a suit or make an application accrues only on the death of a person, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when there is a legal representative of the deceased capable of instituting such suit or making such application.
(2) Where a person against whom, if he were living, a
right to institute a suit or make an application would have
accrued dies before the right accrues, or where a right to
institute a suit or make an application against any person
accrues on the death of such person, the period of
limitation shall be computed from the time when there is a
legal representative of the deceased against whom the
plaintiff may institute such suit or make such application.
(3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) applies to
suits to enforce rights of pre emption or to suit for the
possession of immovable property or of a hereditary office.