# Offences against the Person Act 1861, Section 60: Concealing the birth of a child.


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, . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/60 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-60
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