Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Crimes Act 1958 - SECT 9AA

Abolition of year-and-a-day rule

9AA. Abolition of year-and-a-day rule



(1) The rule of law known as the year-and-a-day rule (under which an act or
omission that in fact causes death is not regarded as the cause of death if
the death occurs more than a year and a day after the act or omission) is
abolished.

(2) This section does not apply to acts or omissions alleged to have occurred-

   (a)  before the commencement of the Crimes (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1991;
        or

   (b)  between two dates, one before and one after that commencement.



(1AA) Exceptions to homicide offences