Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Transfer of cases between magistrates
A magistrate holding a subordinate court of the first class— (a) may transfer a case of which he has taken cognizance to any magis…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Transfer of case where offence committed outside jurisdiction
(1) If upon the hearing of a complaint it appears that the cause of complaint arose outside the limits of the jurisdiction of the…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Court to be open
(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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
High Court to decide in cases of doubt
(1) Whenever a doubt arises as to the court by which an offence should betried, the court entertaining the doubt may report the ci…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Offence committed on a journey
An offence committed whilst the offender is in the course of performing a journey or voyage may be tried by a court through or int…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Trial where place of offence is uncertain
When— (a) it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or (b) an offence is committed partly in one l…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Trial where offence is connected with another offence
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 do…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Trial at place where Act done or where consequence of offence ensures
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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Ordinary place of inquiry and trial
Subject to the provisions of section 69, and to the powers of transfer conferred by sections 79 and 81, every offence shall ordina…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Place and date of sessions of the High Court
(1) For the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction the High Court shall hold sittings at such places and on such days as t…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Powers of High Court
The High Court may inquire into and try any offence subject to its jurisdiction at any place where it has power to hold sittings.
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Removal of accused person under warrant
(1) Where a person is to be sent in custody in pursuance of section 67, awarrant shall be issued by the court within whose jurisdi…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Accused person to be sent to district where offence committed
Where a person accused of having committed an offence within Kenya has escaped or removed from the province or district within whi…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
General authority of courts
Every court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of its jurisdiction and is ch…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Prevention of injury to public property
A police officer may of his own authority interpose to prevent injury attempted to be committed in his view to public property, mo…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Arrest to prevent such offences
A police officer knowing of a design to commit a cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a magistrate and without a war…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Information of design to commit such offences
A police officer receiving information of a design to commit a cognizable offence shall communicate that information to the police…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Police to prevent cognizable offences
A police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall to the best of his ability prevent, the commission of a co…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Breach of restriction order
A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the districtnamed in the order without the written permissio…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Breach of restriction order
A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the district named in the order without the written permissi…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Discharge of sureties
(1) A surety for the peaceable conduct or good behaviour of another personmay at any time apply to a magistrate empowered to hold…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power of High Court to cancel bond
The High Court may at any time, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, cancel any order made under section 47 or sectio…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to release persons imprisoned for failure to give security
Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is of the opinion that a person imprisoned for fail…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Procedure on failure of person to give security
(1) If a person ordered to give security does not give security on or before the date on which the period for which security is to…
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