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[Rev. 2012]
gives medical or surgical treatment to any person whom he has
undertaken to treat; or
dispenses, supplies, sells, administers or gives away any medicine or
poisonous or dangerous matter; or
does any act with respect to, or omits to take proper precautions
against any probable danger from, any machinery of which he is solely
or partly in charge; or
does any act with respect to, or omits to take proper precautions
against any probable danger from, any explosive in his possession,
is guilty of a misdemeanour.
244. Other negligent acts causing harm
Any person who unlawfully does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his
duty to do, not being an act or omission specified in section 243 by which act or
omission harm is caused to any person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable
to imprisonment for six months.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 29.]
245. Dealing in poisonous substances in negligent manner
Whoever 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 possession as is sufficient to guard against probable
danger to human life from such poisonous substance, is guilty of a misdemeanour
and is liable to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of seven thousand shillings.
[Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 46.]
246. Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
Any person who, by any unlawful act or omission not specified in section 233,
causes the safety of any person travelling by any railway to be endangered, is guilty
of a misdemeanour.
247. 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 the exhibition will mislead any navigator, is liable to imprisonment
for seven years.
248. Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded 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, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
249. Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation
Any person who by doing any act, or by omitting to take reasonable care with
any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or
injury to any person in any public way or public line of navigation, is liable to a fine.
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