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CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 67 Concealing birth of a child

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 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 (13) (Heading and ss 68, 69) amended by No. 7577 s. 3, repealed by No. 9509 s. 6, new Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv.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 items 36.5, 36.6), 74/2014 s. 8, 42/2015 ss 3–7, 54/2016 s. 27, repealed by No. 47/2016 s. 18.

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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 (14) (Heading and s. 70) repealed by No. 9509 s. 6, new Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (14) (Heading and ss 70AB, 70AC) inserted by No. 20/2004 s. 7, repealed by No. 47/2016 s. 18.

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Pt 1 Div. 1A (Heading and ss 70A70D) inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(b).

Division 1A—Piracy

(1837) 7 William IV and 1 Vict.

c. LXXXVIII s. 2.

S. 70A inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(b), amended by Nos 37/1986 s. 10, 49/1991 s. 119(1)

(Sch. 2 item 36(a)).