Claims by parents for the cost of care and maintenance of a child born with a disability, following alleged negligent failure to detect abnormalities on ultrasound, are claims 'for damages that relate to personal injury' within s.27B of the Limitation of Actions Act 1958 (Vic), and Part 2A applies to such claims. This includes the claim of a father (who did not himself suffer the personal injury of pregnancy), because s.27B refers to personal injury to 'a person' rather than 'that person'. The word 'fault' in s.27F(1)(b) means 'act or omission', so discoverability turns on when the plaintiff knew or ought to have known of the causative link between the defendant's conduct and the injury. The construction of s.23A(6) and its interaction with Part 2A was left open.
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