Section 49 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Summons or warrant in case of person not so present

Every summons or warrant issued under section 49 shall be accompanied by a copy of the order made under section 47, and the copy shall be delivered by the officer serving or executing the summons or...

The magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of a person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace, and...

(1) When an order under section 47 has been read or explained under section48 to a person present in court, or when any person appears or is brought before a magistrate in compliance with or in...

(1) If upon an inquiry it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace ormaintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be made subject to a...

If on an inquiry under section 52 it is not proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be subject to...

(1) If a person in respect of whom an order is made under section 47 or section53 is, at the time the order is made, sentenced to or undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, the period of such order...

of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit or the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence punishable with...

A magistrate may refuse to accept a surety offered under any of the preceding sections of this Part on the ground that, for reasons to be recorded by the magistrate, the surety is an unfit person.

(1) If a person ordered to give security does not give security on or before the date on which the period for which security is to be given commences, he shall, except in the case mentioned in...

Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is of the opinion that a person imprisoned for failing to give security may be released without hazard to the community,...

The High Court may at any time, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, cancel any order made under section 47 or section 53.

(1) A surety for the peaceable conduct or good behaviour of another personmay at any time apply to a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class to cancel a bond executed under...

A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the district named in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to...

A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the districtnamed in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to...

A police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall to the best of his ability prevent, the commission of a cognizable offence.

A police officer receiving information of a design to commit a cognizable offence shall communicate that information to the police officer to whom he is subordinate, and to any other officer whose...

A police officer knowing of a design to commit a cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a magistrate and without a warrant, the person so designing, if it appears to the officer that the...

A police officer may of his own authority interpose to prevent injury attempted to be committed in his view to public property, movable or immovable, or the removal of or injury to any public landmark...

Every court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of its jurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within Kenya, or which according to...

Where a person accused of having committed an offence within Kenya has escaped or removed from the province or district within which the offence was committed and is found within another province or...

(1) Where a person is to be sent in custody in pursuance of section 67, awarrant shall be issued by the court within whose jurisdiction he is found, and that warrant shall be sufficient authority to...

The High Court may inquire into and try any offence subject to its jurisdiction at any place where it has power to hold sittings.

(1) For the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction the High Court shall hold sittings at such places and on such days as the Chief Justice may direct. (2) The Registrar of the High Court...

Subject to the provisions of section 69, and to the powers of transfer conferred by sections 79 and 81, every offence shall ordinarily be tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction...

When a person is accused of the commission of an offence by reason of anything which has been done or of any consequence which has ensued, the offence may be tried by a court within the local limits...

When an act is an offence by reason of its relation to another act which is also an offence or which would be an offence if the doer were capable of committing an offence, a charge of the...

When— (a) it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or (b) an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another; or (c) an offence is a continuing...

An offence committed whilst the offender is in the course of performing a journey or voyage may be tried by a court through or into the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offender or the person...

(1) Whenever a doubt arises as to the court by which an offence should betried, the court entertaining the doubt may report the circumstances to the High Court, and the High Court shall decide by...

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the place in which a criminal court is held for the purpose of trying an offence shall be deemed an open court to which the public generally may have access, so far as...

(1) If upon the hearing of a complaint it appears that the cause of complaint arose outside the limits of the jurisdiction of the court before which the complaint has been brought, the court may, on...

A magistrate holding a subordinate court of the first class— (a) may transfer a case of which he has taken cognizance to any magistrate holding a subordinate court empowered to try that case within...

If in the course of any trial before a magistrate the evidence appears to warrant a presumption that the case is one which should be tried by some other magistrate, he shall stay proceedings and...

(1) Whenever it is made to appear to the High Court— (a) that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in any criminal court subordinate thereto; or (b) that some question of law of unusual...

(1) In any criminal case and at any stage thereof before verdict or judgment, asthe case may be, the Director of Public Prosecutions may enter a nolle prosequi, either by stating in court or by...

The Director of Public Prosecutions may order in writing that all or any of the powers vested in him by sections 81 and 82, and by Part VIII, be vested for the time being in the Solicitor-General, the...

(1) The Director of Public Prosecutions, by notice in the Gazette, may appoint public prosecutors for Kenya or for any specified area thereof, and either generally or for any specified case or class...

A public prosecutor may appear and plead without any written authority before any court in which any case of which he has charge is under trial or appeal; and if a private person instructs an advocate...

In a trial before a subordinate court a public prosecutor may, with the consent of the court or on the instructions of the Director of Public Prosecutions, at any time before judgment is pronounced,...

(1) A magistrate trying a case may permit the prosecution to be conducted byany person, but no person other than a public prosecutor or other officer generally or specially authorized by the Director...

(1) Proceedings may be instituted either by the making of a complaint or by the bringing before a magistrate of a person who has been arrested without warrant. (2) A person who believes from a...

(1) Upon receiving a complaint and having signed the charge in accordancewith section 89, the magistrate may issue either a summons or a warrant to compel the attendance of the accused person before a...

(1) Every summons issued by a court under this Code shall be in writing, induplicate, signed and sealed by the presiding officer of the court or by such other officer as the High Court may from time...

(1) Every summons shall be served either by a police officer, an officer ofthe court issuing it or by such other person as the court may direct, and shall, if practicable, be served personally on the...

Where a person summoned cannot by the exercise of due diligence be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with an adult member of his family or with his servant...

If service in the manner provided by sections 92 and 93 cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected, the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicates of the summons to some conspicuous...

Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government, the court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send it in duplicate to the head of the office in which that person is employed,...

Service of a summons on an incorporated company or other body corporate may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation or by registered...

When a court desires that a summons issued by it shall be served at a place outside the local limits of its jurisdiction, it shall send the summons in duplicate to a magistrate within the local limits...

(1) Where the officer who has served a summons is not present at the hearingof the case, and where a summons issued by a court has been served outside the local limits of its jurisdiction, an...