(a) Clause 1: Concealment of birth: Although this provision, requiring, among others, that there must be a lawful burial order before a newly born child's body can be disposed of, has been on the Statute Book since 1935, the Department is requested to investigate and report back on how this provision could impact on certain customary law practices in terms of which the bodies of newly born children are, in certain circumstances, disposed of, might seem to amount to the concealment of birth of a newly born child. The law must take these practices into account so as to ensure that criminal charges and prosecutions are only brought where there is an unlawful intention to conceal the birth of a child.