Welfareville - Notebook - The law: Criminal Code - Criminal negligence

§ Criminal negligence

Offences Against the Person and Reputation
- Duties Tending to Preservation of Life
- Criminal Negligence
  - Section 219, Criminal negligence
  - Section 220, Causing death by criminal negligence
  - Section 221, Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence
- Homicide
- Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide
- Suicide
- Neglect in Child-birth and Concealing Dead Body
- Bodily Harm and Acts and Omissions Causing Danger to the Person
- Motor Vehicles, Vessels and Aircraft
- Assaults
- Kidnapping, Trafficking in Persons, Hostage Taking and Abduction
- Commodification of Sexual Activity
- Abortion
- Offences Against Conjugal Rights
- Unlawful Solemnization of Marriage
- Blasphemous Libel
- Defamatory Libel
- Hate Propaganda

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Criminal negligence

219. (1) Every one is criminally negligent who

in doing anything, or
in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do,

shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "duty" means a duty imposed by law.
R.S., c. C-34, s. 202.

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