CAP. 63 Penal Code [Rev. 2012] 237. Unlawful wounding or poisoning Any person who— (a) unlawfully wounds another; or (b) unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy any person, causes any poison or other noxious thing to be administered to, or taken by, any person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years. [Act No. 53 of 1952, Sch., Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 27, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 44.] 238. Intimidation and molestation. (1) Any person who intimidates or molests any other person is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. (2) A person intimidates another person who, with intent to cause alarm to that person or to cause him to do any act which he is not legally bound to do or to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do, causes or threatens to cause unlawful injury to the person, reputation or property of that person or anyone in whom that person is interested. (3) A person molests another person who, with intent as aforesaid, dissuades or attempts to dissuade, by whatever means, anyone from entering or approaching or dealing at any premises at which that person carries on trade or business or works or otherwise from dealing with that person, or with any person by whom that person is employed, in the course of his trade or business, or watches and besets any premises where that person resides or works or carries on trade or business or happens to be, or the approaches to such premises, or persistently follows that person or anyone in whom that person is interested from place to place, or interferes with any property owned or used by, or deprives of or hinders in the use of such property, that person or anyone in whom that person is interested. (4) Nothing in subsection (3) shall apply to any peaceful picketing which is lawful under the provisions of any law relating to trade unions or trade disputes within the meaning of the Trade Unions Act (Cap. 233). [Act No. 53 of 1952, Sch., Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 28.] 239. Failure to supply necessaries Any person who, being charged with the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, without lawful excuse fails to do so, whereby the life of that other person is or is likely to be endangered or his health is or is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years. 240. Surgical operation A person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon any person for his benefit, or upon an unborn child for the preservation of the mother’s life, if the performance of the operation is reasonable, having regard to the patient’s state at the time and to all the circumstances of the case. [Issue 1] P6-76