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Criminal Code Act 1924
166Concealment of birth
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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.