CAP. 212]
[8. 46 cont.]
Procuring drug, etc., with intent to cause abortion.
24 & 25 Vict. Offences against the Person.
uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, and any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers or causes to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
[47
47. Any person who unlawfully supplies or procures any poison or other noxious thing or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
Concealing birth of child.
c. 100, s. 60. Concealing the birth of a child.
[48
48. If any woman is 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 misdemeanor triable summarily, and shall be liable to imprisonment for two years: Provided that if any person tried for the murder of any child is acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the jury by whose verdict such person is acquitted to find, in case it so appears in evidence, that the child had recently been born, and that such person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of such child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, and thereupon the court may pass such sentence as if such person had been convicted on an indictment for the concealment of the birth.
[49
Sodomy and bestiality. Abominable offences.
49. Any person who is convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 61.
[50
Attempt to commit unnatural offence.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 62.
50. Any person who-
(a) attempts to commit the said abominable crime; or
(b) is guilty of any assault with intent to commit the
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CAP. 212]
[8. 46 cont.]
Procuring drug, etc.,
with intent
to cause abortion.
24 & 25 Vict.
Offences against the Person.
uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, and any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers or causes to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprison- ment for life.
[47
47. Any person who unlawfully supplies or procures any poison or other noxious thing or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlaw- c. 100, s. 59. fully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
Concealing
birth of child.
c. 100, s. 60.
Concealing the birth of a child.
[48
48. If any woman is delivered of a child, every person 24 & 25 Vict. 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 22 of 1950, s. 3. misdemeanor triable summarily, and shall be liable to imprisonment for two years: Provided that if any person tried for the murder of any child is acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the jury by whose verdict such person is acquitted to find, in case it so appears in evidence, that the child had recently been born, and that such person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of such child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, and thereupon the court may pass such sentence as if such person had been convicted on an indictment for the concealment of the birth. [49
Sodomy and bestiality.
Abominable offences.
49. Any person who is convicted of the abominable 24 & 25 Vict. crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
c. 100, s. 61.
[50
Attempt to commit unnatural offence.
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 100, s. 62.
50. Any person who-
(a) attempts to commit the said abominable crime; or (b) is guilty of any assault with intent to commit the
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