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Offences Against Women and Children
Secretly burying or disposing of a dead child's body (whether it died before, during, or after birth) to intentionally conceal the birth, is punished with up to 2 years' imprisonment, fine, or both.
This criminalises secretly disposing of a deceased infant's body specifically to hide that the birth ever occurred, separate from any question of how the child actually died.
Secretly burying a deceased newborn's body specifically to conceal that a birth took place at all is an offence under this section, independent of any separate investigation into the cause of the child's death.