The Protection Against Domestic Violence Act CAP. 151

Section 18 of The Protection Against Domestic Violence Act CAP. 151: Mutual orders.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the court, in the course of determining an application, from granting a protection order, in favour of the respondent even though no application has been made by the respondent.

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Section 19 — Contents of protection order.

(1) A protection order may direct that a respondent shall not do any one or more of the following— (a) physically or sexually abuse or threaten to abuse the protected person; (b) damage, or threaten t…

Section 22 — Breach of protection order.

A respondent who has been served with a copy of a protection order and who contravenes the order in any respect, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings…