Chapter 22

CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS AND NEGLIGENCE.

227. Rash or negligent act causing death.

Any person who, by any rash or negligent act not amounting to manslaughter, causes the death of another person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to a fine not exceeding seventy thousand shillings or to both such imprisonment and fine.

228. Specific rash and negligent acts.

Any person who, in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or to be likely to cause harm to any other person— (a) drives any vehicle or rides on any public way;

(b) navigates, or takes part in the navigation or working of any vessel;

(c) does any act with fire or any combustible matter or omits to take precautions against any probable danger from any fire or any combustible matter in his or her possession;

(d) omits to take precautions against any probable danger from any animal in his or her possession;

(e) gives medical or surgical treatment to any person whom he or she has undertaken to treat;

(f) dispenses, supplies, sells, administers or gives away any medicine or poisonous or dangerous matter;

(g) does any act with respect to, or omits to take proper precautions against, any probable danger, from any machinery of which he or she is solely or partly in charge; or

(h) does any act with respect to, or omits to take proper precautions against any probable danger from, any explosive in his or her possession, commits a misdemeanour.

229. Other rash and negligent acts.

Any person who unlawfully does any act or omits to do any act which it is his or her duty to do, not being an act or omission specified in sections 227 and 228, by which act or omission harm is caused to any person, commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for six months.

230. Dealing in poisonous substances in negligent manner.

Any person who does with any poisonous substance any act in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, or knowingly or negligently omits to take such care with any poisonous substance in his or her possession as is sufficient to guard against probable danger to human life from such poisonous substance, commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of two thousand shillings.

231. Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway.

Any person who, by any unlawful act or omission not specified in section 218, causes the safety of any person travelling by any railway to be endangered, commits a misdemeanour.

232. Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy.

Any person who exhibits any false light, mark or buoy intending or knowing it to be likely that such exhibition will mislead any navigator is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

233. Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe vessel.

Any person who knowingly or negligently conveys or causes to be conveyed for hire any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or so loaded as to be unsafe, commits a misdemeanour.

234. Danger or obstruction in public way, etc.

Any person who, by doing any act or by omitting to take reasonable care with any property in his or her possession or under his or her charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury to any person in any public way or public line of navigation is liable to a fine