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Punishment for kidnapping
Any person who kidnaps any person from Kenya or from lawful guardianship is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for s…
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Definition of abduction
Any person who by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place is said to abduct that person.
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Definition of kidnapping from lawful guardianship
Any person who takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any…
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Definition of kidnapping from Kenya
Any person who conveys any person beyond the limits of Kenya without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authori…
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Other assaults
Any person who— (a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer…
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Assault on persons protecting wreck
Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorized in or on account of the…
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Assault causing actual bodily harm
Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for fiv…
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Common assault
Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanour and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for w…
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Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation
Any person who by doing any act, or by omitting to take reasonable care with any property in his possession or under his charge, c…
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Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel
Any person who knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that v…
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Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy
Any person who exhibits any false light, mark or buoy, intending or knowing it to be likely that the exhibition will mislead any n…
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Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
Any person who, by any unlawful act or omission not specified in section 233, causes the safety of any person travelling by any ra…
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Dealing in poisonous substances in negligent manner
Whoever does, with any poisonous substance, any act in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to…
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Other negligent acts causing harm.
Any person who unlawfully does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do, not being an act or omission specified…
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Reckless and negligent acts
Any person who, in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or to be likely to cause harm to any other person— (a)…
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Supply of harmful substances to children
(1) Any person who supplies or offers to a child— (a) any petroleum distillate, glue or other substance consisting of or containin…
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Consent
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 241, consent by a person to the causing of his own death or his own maim does not af…
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Excess of force
Any person authorized by law or by the consent of the person injured by him to use force is criminally responsible for any excess,…
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Surgical operation
A person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon a…
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Failure to supply necessaries
Any person who, being charged with the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, without lawful excuse fails to do so…
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Intimidation and molestation.
(1) Any person who intimidates or molests any other person is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not ex…
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Unlawful wounding or poisoning.
Any person who— (a) unlawfully wounds another; or (b) unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy any person, causes any poison…
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Maliciously administering poison with intent to harm
Any person who unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy another, causes any poison or noxious thing to be administered to, o…
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Attempting to injure by explosive substances
Any person who unlawfully, and with intent to do any harm to another, puts any explosive substance in any place whatever, is guilt…
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