Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

Section 73 - Dangerous thing, negligently causing harm or danger

A person who

(a) being solely or partly in charge of a steam-engine, machinery, ship, boat, or dangerous thing or matter of any kind, or

(b) having undertaken or being engaged in medical or surgical treatment of a person, or

(c) having undertaken or being engaged in the dispensing supplying, selling, administering, or giving away of a medicine or a poisonous or dangerous matter,

negligently endangers the life of any other person, commits a misdemeanour.

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