Section 61 - Explanation as to causing harm to child at birth

(1) Where harm is caused to a child during the time of its birth, or where, on the discovery of the concealed body of the child, harm is found to have been caused to it, the harm shall be presumed to have been caused to the child before its death.

(2) The time of birth includes the whole period from the commencement of labour until the time when the child so becomes a person that it may be murder or manslaughter to cause its death.