(4) No provision that proceedings may be instituted only by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions shall apply to proceedings to which this section applies.
(5) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—
- (a) the reference in subsection (1) to the Attorney General is to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, and
- (b) the reference in subsection (4) to the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.
Short title, commencement and extent. 3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996.
(2) Section 1 does not affect the continued application of the rule referred to in that section to a case where the act or omission (or the last of the acts or omissions) which caused the death occurred before the day on which this Act is passed.
(3) Section 2 does not come into force until the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed; but that section applies to the institution of proceedings after the end of that period in any case where the death occurred during that period (as well as in any case where the death occurred after the end of that period).
(4) This Act extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
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