{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-60",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/100",
  "legislation_title": "Offences against the Person Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Concealing the birth of a child.",
  "text": "If any woman shall be delivered of a child, every person who shall, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child, whether such child died before, at, or after its birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2); and proviso repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 2 para. 13(1)(a), Sch. 13 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 16, 20, 26, 27, 34, 36, 38, 47, 57, 60 amended as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:26.210595+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}