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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-year-and-a-day-rule-act-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/19",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-year-and-a-day-rule-act-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to abolish the “year and a day rule” and, in consequence of its abolition, to impose a restriction on the institution in certain circumstances of proceedings for a fatal offence.\n[17th June 1996]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 17.8.1996, see s. 3(3)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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