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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