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Crimes
2013, No. 10
85. Duty of parent or guardian to provide necessaries-(1)
A person who as a parent or person in place of a parent is under a
legal duty to provide necessaries for any child under the age of
18 years, being a child in his or her actual custody, is criminally
responsible for omitting without lawful excuse to do so, whether
the child is helpless or not, if the death of the child is caused, or
if his or her life is endangered or his or her health permanently
injured, by such omission.
(2) A person is liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding seven (7) years who, without lawful excuse, neglects
the duty specified in this section so that the life of the child is
endangered or his or her health permanently injured by such
neglect.
86. Abandoning child under six (6) years - A person is
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years
who unlawfully abandons or exposes any child under the age of
six (6) years.
87. Duty of persons doing dangerous acts - A person who
undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment, or to do
any other lawful act the doing of which is or may be dangerous
to life, is under a legal duty to have and to use reasonable
knowledge, skill, and care in doing any such act, and is
criminally responsible for the consequences of omitting without
lawful excuse to discharge that duty.
88. Duty of persons in charge of dangerous things - A
person who has in his charge or under his control anything
whatever, whether animate or inanimate, or who erects, makes,
operates, or maintains anything whatever, which, in the absence
of precaution or care, may endanger human life is under a legal
duty to take reasonable precautions against and to use reasonable
care to avoid such danger, and is criminally responsible for the
consequences of omitting without lawful excuse to discharge that
duty.