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Criminal Code Act 1983
183Failure to supply necessaries
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183 Failure to supply necessaries Any person who, being charged with the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, unlawfully fails to do so whereby the life of that other person is or is likely to be endangered or his health is or is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.