Crimes Act 1958
67Concealing birth of a child
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67 Concealing birth of a child
If any woman has been delivered of a child, every person who by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child whether such child died before at or after its birth endeavours to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a summary offence, and shall be liable to level 9 imprisonment (6 months maximum).
Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (13) (Heading and ss 68, 69) amended by No. 7577 s. 3, repealed by No. 9509 s. 6, new Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (13) (Heading and ss 67A–70) inserted by No. 90/1995 s. 88, amended by Nos 22/1996 s. 8, 48/1997 s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 items 45–47), 108/1997 s. 151, 67/2000 s. 6, 69/2001 s. 20, 52/2003 s. 52(Sch. 1 item 2), 20/2004
ss 4–6, 6/2005 ss 12–13(3), 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 40.5), 77/2013
ss 15, 16, 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. items 36.5, 36.6), 74/2014 s. 8, 42/2015 ss 3–7, 54/2016 s. 27, repealed by No. 47/2016 s. 18.
Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (14) (Heading and s. 70) repealed by No. 9509 s. 6, new Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (14) (Heading and ss 70AB, 70AC) inserted by No. 20/2004 s. 7, repealed by No. 47/2016 s. 18.
Pt 1 Div. 1A (Heading and ss 70A–70D) inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(b).