Section 218 of Penal Code CAP 63: Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
It is the duty of every person who, except in a case of necessity, undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment to any other person, or to do any other lawful act which is or may be dangerous to human life or health, to have reasonable skill and to use reasonable care in doing the act; and...
Section 220 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempt to murder
Any person who—
(a) attempts unlawfully to cause the death of another; or
(b) with intent unlawfully to cause the death of another does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do, such act or omission being of such a nature as to be likely to endanger human life,
is guilty of a...
Section 223 of Penal Code CAP 63: Threats to kill
(1) Any person who without lawful excuse utters, or directly or indirectly causes any person to receive, a threat, whether in writing or not, to kill any person is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
Section 225 of Penal Code CAP 63: Aiding suicide
Any person who—
(a) procures another to kill himself; or
(b) counsels another to kill himself and thereby induces him to do so; or
(c) aids another in killing himself,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
Section 227 of Penal Code CAP 63: Concealing birth
Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at or after its birth, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
Section 228 of Penal Code CAP 63: Killing unborn child
Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and had then died, he would be deemed to have unlawfully killed the child, is guilty of a felony and is liable to...
Section 232 of Penal Code CAP 63: Preventing escape from wreck
Any person who unlawfully—
(a) prevents or obstructs any person who is on board of, or is escaping from, a vessel which is in distress or wrecked, in his endeavours to save his life; or
(b) obstructs any person in his endeavours to save the life of any person so situated,
is guilty of a felony...
Section 237 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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.
Section 238 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 29.]
(2) A person intimidates another person who, with intent to cause alarm to that person or to cause him to do any act...
Section 239 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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...
Section 240 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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...
Section 241 of Penal Code CAP 63: Excess of force
Any person authorized by law or by the consent of the person injured by him to use force is criminally responsible for any excess, according to the nature and quality of the act which constitutes the excess.
Section 242 of Penal Code CAP 63: Consent
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 241, consent by a person to the causing of his own death or his own maim does not affect the criminal responsibility of any person by whom the death or maim is caused.
Section 243 of Penal Code CAP 63: Reckless 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; or
(b) navigates, or takes part in the navigation or working of, any vessel; or
(c) does any act with fire or any...
Section 244 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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.