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Section 166 — Crimes Act 1961: Causing injury the treatment of which causes death
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166 Causing injury the treatment of which causes death Every one who causes to another person any bodily injury, in itself of a dangerous nature, from which death results, kills that person, although the immediate cause of death be treatment, proper or improper, applied in good faith. Compare: 1908 No 32 s 181
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