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(4) The said section 49 shall also apply in the case of the acquittal of a woman upon an indictment for infanticide as it applies upon the acquittal of a woman upon an indictment for murder.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Clause 2 of this Bill enacts in section 77A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, No. 9 of 1899, the provisions of section 1 of the Infanticide Act, 1938, (1 & 2 Geo. 6, c.86) in substitution for the provisions of section 1 of the Infanticide Act, 1922, (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 18).

November, 1938.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.