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[s. 24 cont.]
Failure to provide apprentice or servant with food, etc., whereby life is endangered, etc.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 26.
Exposing child whereby life is endangered.
Offences against the Person.
such misdemeanor, and thereupon he shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted on an indictment for such misdemeanor.
25. Any person who-
(a) being legally liable, either as a master or mistress, to provide for any apprentice or servant necessary food, clothing, or lodging, wilfully and without lawful excuse refuses or neglects to provide the same; or
(b) unlawfully and maliciously does or causes to be done any bodily harm to any such apprentice or servant,
so that the life of such apprentice or servant is endangered, or the health of such apprentice or servant has been or is likely to be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
26. Any person who unlawfully abandons or exposes any child, being under the age of two years, whereby the life of such child is endangered, or the health of such child is or is likely to be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 27.
Ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of child or young person.
[cf. 8 Edw. 7, c. 67, s. 12.]
22 of 1950, Schedule.
27. (1) If any person over the age of sixteen years who has the custody, charge or care of any child or young person under that age wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child or young person or causes or procures such child or young person to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed in a manner likely to cause such child or young person unnecessary suffering or injury to his health (including injury to or loss of sight, or hearing, or limb, or organ of the body, or any mental derangement) such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years; or
(b) on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for six months;
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