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Browse Acts ↓(1) Where the Minister, on reasonable grounds, considers that it is necessary in the interests of public order, health or morals, the security of Kenya, and to be reasonably justifiable in a democratic society, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, prohibit the importation of any publ…
(1) Any person who, otherwise than in his capacity and in the course of his duties as a public officer, prints, makes, imports, publishes, sells, supplies, offers for sale or supply, distributes, reproduces or has in his possession or under his control any prohibited publication is guilty of an offe…
(1) Any police officer or administrative officer may seize and detain any prohibited publication which he finds in circumstances which raise a reasonable presumption that an offence under this Act has been, is being or is intended to be committed in relation thereto, or which he finds abandoned or w…
Any person who— (a) is present at, and consents to the administering of, any oath, or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the person who takes it to commit any offence punishable with death; or (b) takes any such oath or engagement, not being compelled to do so, is guilty of a fe…
Any person who administers an oath, or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the person who takes it to commit any offence, punishable with death, is guilty of a felony and shall be sentenced to death.
Any person who— (a) administers, or is present at and consents to the administering of, any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the person who takes it to act in any of the ways following, that is to say— (i) to engage in any mutinous or seditious enterprise; (ii) to comm…
(1) Any person who by the use of physical force, or by threat or intimidation of any kind, compels another person to take an oath or engagement in the nature of an oath purporting to bind the person who takes it to act or not to act in any way is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for…
It shall not be a defence for a person who takes any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath mentioned in section 59 or section 61 to prove that he was compelled to do so unless, within five days after the taking of the oath or engagement in the nature of an oath or, if he is prevented by physic…
Any person who is present at the administering of an oath or engagement in the nature of an oath mentioned in section 59, section 61 or section 62 shall be deemed to have consented to the administering of the oath or engagement unless, within five days thereafter or, if he is prevented by physical f…
(1) Any person who— (a) without the permission of the Minister trains or drills any other person to the use of arms or the practice of military exercises, movements or evolutions; or (b) is present at any meeting or assembly of persons, held without the permission of the Minister, for the purpose of…
(1) Any person who publishes any false statement, rumour or report which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or to disturb the public peace is guilty of a misdemeanour. (2) It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) if the accused proves that, prior to publication, he took su…
Any person who, without such justification or excuse as would be sufficient in the case of the defamation of a private person, publishes anything intended to be read, or any sign or visible representation, tending to degrade, revile or expose to hatred or contempt any foreign prince, potentate, amba…
(1) Any person who, without the authority of the President in writing— (a) prepares or fits out any naval or military expedition to proceed against the dominions of any friendly state, or is engaged in such preparation or fitting out or assists therein or is employed in any capacity in such expediti…
(1) Any person who does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act with a subversive intention, or utters any words with a subversive intention, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years. (2) Deleted…
(1) When three or more persons assemble with intent to commit an offence, or, being assembled with intent to carry out some common purpose, conduct themselves in such a manner as to cause persons in the neighbourhood reasonably to fear that the persons so assembled will commit a breach of the peace,…
Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
Any person who takes part in a riot is guilty of a misdemeanour.
(1) Any administrative officer or magistrate, or, in his absence, any gazetted officer or inspector of the Kenya Police Force or any commissioned officer in the military forces in Kenya, in whose view twelve or more persons are riotously assembled, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be commit…
If upon the expiration of a reasonable time after such proclamation made, or after the making of such proclamation has been prevented by force, twelve or more persons continue riotously assembled together, any person authorized to make proclamation, or any police officer, or any other person acting…
If proclamation is made commanding the persons engaged in a riot, or assembled with the purpose of committing a riot, to disperse, every person who, at or after the expiration of a reasonable time from the making of the proclamation, takes or continues to take part in the riot or assembly, is guilty…
Any person who forcibly prevents or obstructs the making of a proclamation as is in section 81 mentioned is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life; and, if the making of the proclamation is so prevented, every person who, knowing that it has been so prevented, takes or continues t…
Any persons who, being riotously assembled together, unlawfully pull down or destroy, or begin to pull down or destroy, any building, railway, machinery or structures are guilty of a felony and each of them is liable to imprisonment for life.
Any persons who, being riotously assembled together unlawfully damage any of the things in section 85 mentioned, are guilty of a felony and each of them is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
All persons are guilty of a misdemeanor who, being riotously assembled, unlawfully and with force prevent, hinder or obstruct the loading or unloading of any railway, vehicle or vessel, or the starting or transit of any railway or vehicle, or the sailing or navigation of any vessel, or unlawfully an…
Any person who goes armed in public without lawful occasion in such a manner as to cause terror to any person is guilty of a misdemeanour, and his arms may be forfeited.
possession or under his control any firearm or other offensive weapon, or any ammunition, incendiary material or explosive in circumstances which raise a reasonable presumption that the firearm, ammunition, offensive weapon, incendiary material or explosive is intended to be used or has recently bee…
Any person who, in order to take possession thereof, enters on any lands or tenements in a violent manner, whether the violence consists in actual force applied to any other person or in threats or in breaking open any house or in collecting an unusual number of people, and whether he is entitled to…
Any person who, being in actual possession of land without colour of right, holds possession of it, in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of a breach of the peace, against a person entitled by law to the possession of the land is guilty of the misdemeanour term…
Any person who takes part in a fight in a public place is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
Any person who challenges another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke any person to challenge another to fight a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanour.