226. Consent.
Notwithstanding section 225, consent by a person to the causing of his or her
own death or his or her own maim does not affect the criminal responsibility
of any person by whom such death or maim is caused.
CHAPTER XXII—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.
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