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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 166

   Concealment of birth
(1)  Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child, whether the child died before, at, or after, its birth, endeavours to conceal the birth thereof, is guilty of a crime.
Charge:  Concealment of birth.
(2)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to a case in which the child has not reached such a stage of maturity as would in the ordinary course of nature render it probable that such child would live.



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