19.1. Failure by the beneficiary to file a claim or implement the guarantee in timely fashion cannot be set up against the beneficiary if the contractor or manager fails to perform the obligations under sections 17, 17.1, 18, 66, 69.1, 132 to 137 and paragraphs 12, 13, 14 and 18 of Schedule II, unless the contractor or manager shows that such failure had no incidence on the failure to file a claim in timely fashion or that the time for filing the claim or implementing the guarantee has been expired for more than one year.
Non-compliance with a period cannot be set up against the beneficiary if the circumstances make it possible to establish that the beneficiary was made to exceed the period following representations by the contractor or the manager.
O.C. 39-2006, s. 8; O.C. 156-2014, s. 11.