New Zealand law explained for everyone
This section of the law used to be about causing someone’s death by using false evidence. However, it no longer exists in the current law. The government removed this section on 26 December 1989 when they made changes to the rules about punishing people. If you want to know more about why this change happened, you can look at section 3(1)(a) of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989.
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or “A person can only be charged with killing someone if the victim dies within one year and one day of being hurt.”