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PART VII 
Miscellaneous | 
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Abolition of last opportunity rule. | 
56.—For the purposes of subsection (1) of section 34 and subsection (1) of section 46, the fact that any person— | 
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(a) had an opportunity of avoiding the consequences of the act of any other person but negligently or carelessly failed to do so, or | 
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(b) might have avoided those consequences by the exercise of care, or | 
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(c) might have avoided those consequences but for previous negligence or want of care on his part, | 
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shall not, by itself, be a ground for holding that the damage was not caused by the act of such other person. |