Section 64 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Arrest to prevent such offences

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...

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, whenever a magistrate issues a summons in respect of an offence other than a felony, he may if he sees reason to do so, and shall when the...

Notwithstanding the issue of a summons, a warrant may be issued at any time before or after the time appointed in the summons for the appearance of the accused.

If the accused does not appear at the time and place appointed in and by the summons, and his personal attendance has not been dispensed with under section 99, the court may issue a warrant to...

(1) Every warrant of arrest shall be under the hand of the judge or magistrateissuing it and shall bear the seal of the court. (2) Every warrant shall state shortly the offence with which the person...

(1) A court issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person in respect of an offenceother than murder, treason or rape may direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if the person executes a bond with...

(1) A warrant of arrest may be directed to one or more police officers, or to onepolice officer and to all other police officers of the area within which the court has jurisdiction, or generally to...

(1) A magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class maydirect a warrant to a landholder, farmer or manager of land within the local limits of his jurisdiction for the arrest of...

A warrant directed to a police officer may also be executed by another police officer whose name is endorsed upon the warrant by the officer to whom it is directed or endorsed.

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance thereof to the person to be arrested, and, if so required, shall show him the warrant.

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 103 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the court...

A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in Kenya.

(1) When a warrant of arrest is to be executed outside the local limits of thejurisdiction of the court issuing it, the court may, instead of directing the warrant to a police officer, forward it by...

(1) When a warrant of arrest directed to a police officer is to be executedoutside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing it, he shall take it for endorsement to a magistrate within...

(1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court by which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless the court which issued the warrant is...

An irregularity or defect in the substance or form of a warrant, and any variance between it and the written complaint or information, or between either and the evidence produced on the part of the...

Where a person for whose appearance or arrest the officer presiding in a court is empowered to issue a summons or warrant is present in court, the officer may require the person to execute a bond,...

When a person who is bound by a bond taken under this Code to appear before a court does not so appear, the officer presiding may issue a warrant directing that the person be arrested and produced...