Section 42 — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Injuries to child at time of birth

Whosoever, during or after the delivery of a child, intentionally or recklessly inflicts on such child, whether then wholly born or not, any grievous bodily harm, shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

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Related sections

s 41C — Inducing another person to request or access voluntary assisted dying
s 41D — Inducing self-administration of prescribed substance
s 41E — Advertising Schedule 4 or 8 poison as voluntary assisted dying substance
s 43 — Abandoning or exposing a child under 7 years
s 43A — Failure of persons with parental responsibility to care for child
s 43B — Failure to reduce or remove risk of child becoming victim of child abuse

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