Section 181 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Charges of certain offences respecting infant and unborn children, andabortion, etc.
(1) When a woman is charged with the murder of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, and the court is of the opinion that she by a wilful act or omission caused its death but at the time of the act or omission she had not fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to that child and that by reason thereof or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child the balance of her mind was then disturbed, she may, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for the provisions of section 210 of the Penal Code she might be convicted of murder, be convicted of the offence of infanticide although she was not charged with it.
(2) When a person is charged with the murder or manslaughter of a child or with infanticide, or with an offence under section 158 or section 159 of the Penal Code (relating to the procuring of abortion), and the court is of the opinion that he is not guilty of murder, manslaughter or infanticide or an offence under section 158 or section 159 of the Penal Code (Cap. 63), but that he is guilty of the offence of killing an unborn child, he may be convicted of that offence although he was not charged with it.
(3) When a person is charged with killing an unborn child and the court is of the opinion that he is not guilty of that offence but that he is guilty of an offence under one of the sections 158 and 159 of the Penal Code, he may be convicted of that offence although he was not charged with it.
(4) When a person is charged with the murder or infanticide of a child or with killing an unborn child and the court is of the opinion that he is not guilty of any of those offences, and if it appears in evidence that the child had recently been born and that the person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of the child, endeavour to conceal the birth of that child, he may be convicted of the offence of endeavouring to conceal the birth of that child although he was not charged with it.
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[Issue 2]
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