Section 66 - Child as the object of murder

(1) In order that a child may be considered a person for the purposes of murder or manslaughter to cause its death, it is necessary that, before its death, the child should have been completely brought forth alive from the body of the mother.

(2) It is not necessary

(a) that a circulation of blood, independent of the mother’s circulation, should have commenced in the child, or

(b) that the child should have breathed, or

(c) that it should have been detached from the mother by severance of the umbilical cord.

(3) It is murder or manslaughter, to cause death to happen to a child after it becomes a person, within the meaning of this section, by means of harm caused to it before it became a person.