Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Warrants, to whom directed
(1) A warrant of arrest may be directed to one or more police officers, or to onepolice officer and to all other police officers o…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Court may direct security to be taken
(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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Form, contents and duration of warrant
(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)…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Warrant on disobedience of summons
If the accused does not appear at the time and place appointed in and by the summons, and his personal attendance has not been dis…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Warrant after issue of summons
Notwithstanding the issue of a summons, a warrant may be issued at any time before or after the time appointed in the summons for…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to dispense with personal attendance of accused
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, whenever a magistrate issues a summons in respect of an offence other tha…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Proof of service when serving officer not present
(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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Service outside local limits of jurisdiction
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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Service on company
Service of a summons on an incorporated company or other body corporate may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local mana…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Service on servant of Government
Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government, the court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send it in du…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided
If service in the manner provided by sections 92 and 93 cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected, the serving officer s…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Service when person summoned cannot be found
Where a person summoned cannot by the exercise of due diligence be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicat…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Service of summons
(1) Every summons shall be served either by a police officer, an officer ofthe court issuing it or by such other person as the cou…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Form and contents of summons
(1) Every summons issued by a court under this Code shall be in writing, induplicate, signed and sealed by the presiding officer o…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Issue of summons or warrant
(1) Upon receiving a complaint and having signed the charge in accordancewith section 89, the magistrate may issue either a summon…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Complaint and charge
(1) Proceedings may be instituted either by the making of a complaint or by the bringing before a magistrate of a person who has b…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Permission to conduct prosecution
(1) A magistrate trying a case may permit the prosecution to be conducted byany person, but no person other than a public prosecut…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Withdrawal from prosecution in trials before subordinate courts
In a trial before a subordinate court a public prosecutor may, with the consent of the court or on the instructions of the Directo…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Powers of public prosecutors
A public prosecutor may appear and plead without any written authority before any court in which any case of which he has charge i…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to appoint public prosecutors
(1) The Director of Public Prosecutions, by notice in the Gazette, may appoint public prosecutors for Kenya or for any specified a…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Delegation of powers by Director of Public Prosecution
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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power of Director of Public Prosecutions to enter nolle prosequi
(1) In any criminal case and at any stage thereof before verdict or judgment, asthe case may be, the Director of Public Prosecutio…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power of High Court to change venue
(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 subor…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Transfer of part-heard cases
If in the course of any trial before a magistrate the evidence appears to warrant a presumption that the case is one which should…
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