As may be seen, the Tasmanian offence, labelled ‘causing death of child before birth’, does not contain any words similar to the phrase ‘when a female is about to be delivered of a child’, nor does it refer to the principle of ‘a child capable of being born alive’, nor does it contain a phrase akin to ‘prevents the child from being born alive’. In terms of arriving at an appropriate interpretation with respect to the scope of the Tasmanian offence, the associated crime of ‘concealment of birth’, which sits in the same part of the Criminal Code (Tas) as the above offence, may be instructive.58 The offence of concealment of birth does not apply until the foetus has ‘reached such a stage of maturity as would in the ordinary course of nature render it probable that such child would live’59 — in other words, does not apply until the child is capable of being born alive. Adopting a contextual approach to statutory interpretation, it would be reasonable to argue that the offence of ‘causing death of child before birth’ should be interpreted consistently with the ‘concealment of birth’ offence, and consequently both offences should be applicable to the death of a foetus that may be described as a ‘child capable of being born alive’.60