Penal Code CAP 63 — Sections and Provisions — Page 9

Section 277 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing postal matter, etc.

If the thing stolen is postal matter or any chattel, money or valuable security contained in any postal matter, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

Section 278 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing stock

If the thing stolen is any of the following things, that is to say, a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, ostrich, bull, cow, ox, ram, ewe, wether, goat or pig, or the young thereof the offender is liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding fourteen years.

Section 278A of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing motor vehicle

If the thing stolen is a motor vehicle within the meaning of the Traffic Act (Cap. 403), the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 278B of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing fishing gear

If the thing stolen is fishing gear within the meaning of the Fisheries Act, 1988 (Cap. 378), the offender is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Section 279 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing from the person; stealing goods in transit, etc.

If the theft is committed under any of the circumstances following, that is to say— (a) if the thing is stolen from the person of another; (b) if the thing is stolen in a dwelling-house, and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, or the offender at or immediately before or after the time of steali…

Section 280 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing by persons in the public service

If the offender is a person employed in the public service and the thing stolen is the property of the Government, or came into the possession of the offender by virtue of his employment, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 281 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing by clerks and servants

If the offender is a clerk or servant, and the thing stolen is the property of his employer, or came into the possession of the offender on account of his employer, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 282 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing by directors or officers of companies

If the offender is a director or officer of a corporation or company, and the thing stolen is the property of the corporation or company, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 283 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing by agents, etc.

If the thing stolen is any of the things following, that is to say— (a) property which has been received by the offender with a power of attorney for the disposition thereof; (b) property which has been entrusted to the offender either alone or jointly with any other person for him to retain in safe…

Section 284 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing by tenants or lodgers

If the thing stolen is a fixture or chattel let to the offender to be used by him with a house or lodging, and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 285 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing after previous conviction

If the offender, before committing the theft, had been convicted of a theft punishable under any of sections 275 to 284 inclusive, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 286 of Penal Code CAP 63: Concealing registers

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorized or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any property, or for recording births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or a copy of any part of any…

Section 287 of Penal Code CAP 63: Concealing wills

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 288 of Penal Code CAP 63: Concealing deeds

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

Section 289 of Penal Code CAP 63: Killing animals with intent to steal

Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carcass, is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he had stolen the animal.

Section 290 of Penal Code CAP 63: Severing with intent to steal

Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he had stolen the thing after it had become movable.

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

(1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee, and with intent to defraud, is guilty of a misdemeanour. (2) In this section, “mortgaged goods” includes any goods and chattels of any kind, and any animals, and any pro…

Section 292 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulently dealing with minerals in mines

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 five years.

Section 293 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent appropriation of power

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 property of another person, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Section 294 of Penal Code CAP 63: Unlawful use of vehicles, animals, etc.

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 vehicle or cycle, however propelled, or any vessel, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to impri…

Section 295 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of robbery

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 retain the thing stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen or retained, is guilty…

Section 296 of Penal Code CAP 63: Punishment of robbery

(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 with one or more other person or persons, or if, at or immediately before or immediately after the time o…

Section 297 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempted robbery

(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 or property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen, or to prevent or overcome resistanc…

Section 298 of Penal Code CAP 63: Assault with intent to steal

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

Section 299 of Penal Code CAP 63: Demanding property by written threats

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 reasonable or probable cause, and containing threats of any injury or detriment of any kind to be cause…

Section 300 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts at extortion by threats

(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 solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any felony or m…

Section 301 of Penal Code CAP 63: Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats

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 another, or by means of accusing or threatening to accuse any person of committing any felony or mi…

Section 302 of Penal Code CAP 63: Demanding property with menaces

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.

Section 303 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of breaking and entering

(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 other thing intended to close or cover an opening in a building, or an opening giving passage from one…

Section 304 of Penal Code CAP 63: Housebreaking and burglary

(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 human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein, or having committed a felony in any such buildin…