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Criminal Code Act 1983
155Failure to rescue, provide help, &c.
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155 Failure to rescue, provide help, &c. Any person who, being able to provide rescue, resuscitation, medical treatment, first aid or succour of any kind to a person urgently in need of it and whose life may be endangered if it is not provided, callously fails to do so is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.