{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-year-and-a-day-rule-act-1996/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-year-and-a-day-rule-act-1996/section-1.json",
  "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": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Abolition of “year and a day rule”.",
  "text": "The rule known as the “year and a day rule” (that is, the rule that, for the purposes of offences involving death and of suicide, an act or omission is conclusively presumed not to have caused a person’s death if more than a year and a day elapsed before he died) is abolished for all purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/19/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:11.623457+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}