# Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996, Section 1: Abolition of “year and a day rule”.


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/19/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-year-and-a-day-rule-act-1996/section-1
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