Section 291 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods

Any person who takes, conceals or otherwise disposes of any ore or any metal or mineral in or about a mine, with intent to defraud any person, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for...

Any person who fraudulently abstracts or diverts to his own use or to the use of any other person any mechanical, illuminating or electrical power derived from any machine, apparatus or substance, the...

Any person who unlawfully and without colour of right, but not so as to be guilty of stealing, takes or converts to his own use or to the use of any other person any draught or riding animal or any...

Any person who steals anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of stealing it, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to obtain or...

(1) Any person who commits the felony of robbery is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. (2) If the offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument, or is in company...

(1) Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person...

Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person, and knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing demanding anything from any person without...

(1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person— (a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any...

Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to be used to the person of...

Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

(1) A person who breaks any part, whether external or internal, of a building, or opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing, lifting or any other means whatever any door, window, shutter, cellar flap or...

(1) Any person who— (a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein; or (b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a...

(1) Any person who enters or is in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years....

Any person who— (a) breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office, counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any building belonging to a public body, or any...

Any person who breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office, counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any building belonging to a public body, or any building...

(1) Any person found armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon in circumstances that indicate that he was so armed with intent to commit any felony is guilty of a felony and is liable to...

Repealed by Act No. 48 of 1962, s. 13(1).

When any person is convicted of an offence under this Chapter, the court may order that any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument of housebreaking carried or used in connexion with any such...

(1) Where any person is convicted of an offence, or of an attempt to commit an offence or of counselling or procuring the commission of an offence, under the provisions of this Chapter, or of Chapter...

Any representation, made by words, writing or conduct, of a matter of fact, either past or present, which representation is false in fact, and which the person making it knows to be false or does not...

Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable...

Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, induces any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write any...

Any person who by means of any fraudulent trick or device obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being...

Any person who— (a) in incurring any debt or liability, obtains credit by any false pretence or by means of any other fraud; or (b) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, makes or...

(1) Any person who draws or issues a cheque on an account is guilty of a misdemeanour if the person— (a) knows that the account has insufficient funds; (b) knows that the account has been closed;...

(1) A bank or other institution is guilty of a felony if it— (a) with intent to conceal its true financial position, holds a cheque or similar instrument that cannot be settled for the amount due...

Any person who conspires with another by deceit or any fraudulent means to affect the market price of anything publicly sold, or to defraud the public or any person, whether a particular person or...

Any person who, being a seller or mortgagor of any property, or being the advocate or agent of any such seller or mortgagor, with intent to induce the purchaser or mortgagee to accept the title...

Any person who for gain or reward undertakes to tell fortunes, or pretends from his skill or knowledge in any occult science to discover where or in what manner anything supposed to have been stolen...

Any person who wilfully procures or attempts to procure for himself or any other person any registration, licence or certificate under any law by any false pretence is guilty of a misdemeanour and is...

Any person who makes a statement which is to his knowledge untrue for the purpose of procuring a passport, whether for himself or for any other person, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

(1) A person handles stolen goods if (otherwise than in the course of the stealing) knowing or having reason to believe them to be stolen goods he dishonestly receives or retains the goods, or...

Any person who has been detained as a result of the exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75) and is charged with having in his possession or conveying in...

(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, give directions as to the marks which may be applied in or on any stores under the control of any branch or department of, and being the property of,...

(1) If any person brought or appearing before a court under section 323 or section 324 declares that he received any such thing as therein mentioned from some other person, or that he was employed as...

Any person who, without lawful excuse, knowing or having reason to believe the same to have been stolen or obtained in any way whatsoever under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in...

(1) Any person who, being a trustee of any property, destroys the property with intent to defraud, or, with intent to defraud, converts the property to any use not authorized by the trust, is guilty...

Any person who— (a) being a director or officer of a corporation or company, receives or possesses himself as such of any of the property of the corporation or company otherwise than in payment of a...

Any person who, being a promoter, director, officer or auditor of a corporation or company, either existing or intended to be formed, makes, circulates or publishes, or concurs in making, circulating...

Any person who, being a clerk or servant, or being employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, does any of the acts following with intent to defraud, that is to say— (a) destroys,...

(1) Any person who, being an officer charged with the receipt, custody or management of any part of the public revenue or property, knowingly furnishes any false statement or return of any money or...

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to— (a) any building or structure whatever, whether completed or not; or (b) any vessel, whether completed or not; or (c) any stack of cultivated...

Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 332; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing...

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to, cuts down, destroys or seriously or permanently injures— (a) a crop of cultivated produce, whether standing, picked or cut; or (b) a crop of...

Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to, cut down, destroy or seriously or permanently injure any such thing as is mentioned in section 334; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire...

Any person who— (a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether completed or not; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss or...

Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in...

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and is liable, if the animal is an animal such as is referred to in section 278,...

(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour, and is liable, if no other punishment is...