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Crimes Act 1900
43Childbirth—grievous bodily harm
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43 Childbirth—grievous bodily harm
A person who unlawfully and, either intentionally or recklessly, by
any act or omission occurring in relation to a childbirth and before the
child is born alive, inflicts grievous bodily harm on the child, is guilty