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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 an offence and
liable to imprisonment for three years.
230. Responsibility as to 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.
231. Criminal responsibility for excess force
Any person authorised 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.
232. Effect of victim's consent on criminal responsibility for death or maim
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 231 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.
CHAPTER XXIV
CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS AND NEGLIGENCE (ss 233-239)
233. 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;
(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 possession;
(d) omits to take precautions against any probable danger from any animal in his
possession;
(e) gives medical or surgical treatment to any person whom he 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