Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996
22.Section 2(3)(c) of that Act (restriction on institution of proceedings for fatal offence) refers to “an offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult)”. Paragraph 3 of the Schedule amends section 2 to make clear that references in that Act to an offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 should only be to the offence as it applies to causing or allowing death and not to causing or allowing serious physical harm.