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Browse Acts ↓Any person who has been detained as a result of the exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75) and is charged with having in his possession or conveying in any manner anything which may be reasonably suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained,…
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, give directions as to the marks which may be applied in or on any stores under the control of any branch or department of, and being the property of, the Government of Kenya or the Kenya Railways Corporation and the Kenya Ports Authority. (2) Any perso…
(1) If any person brought or appearing before a court under section 323 or section 324 declares that he received any such thing as therein mentioned from some other person, or that he was employed as a carrier, agent or servant to convey the same for some other person, the court may cause every such…
Any person who, without lawful excuse, knowing or having reason to believe the same to have been stolen or obtained in any way whatsoever under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in Kenya the person committing it would have been guilty of a felony or misdemeanour, receives or has…
(1) Any person who, being a trustee of any property, destroys the property with intent to defraud, or, with intent to defraud, converts the property to any use not authorized by the trust, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. (2) For the purposes of this section, “tru…
Any person who— (a) being a director or officer of a corporation or company, receives or possesses himself as such of any of the property of the corporation or company otherwise than in payment of a just debt or demand, and, with intent to defraud, omits either to make a full and true entry thereof…
Any person who, being a promoter, director, officer or auditor of a corporation or company, either existing or intended to be formed, makes, circulates or publishes, or concurs in making, circulating or publishing, any written statement or account which, in any material particular, is to his knowled…
Any person who, being a clerk or servant, or being employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, does any of the acts following with intent to defraud, that is to say— (a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, document, valuable security or account which belongs to or is in…
(1) Any person who, being an officer charged with the receipt, custody or management of any part of the public revenue or property, knowingly furnishes any false statement or return of any money or property received by him or entrusted to his care, or of any balance of money or property in his posse…
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to— (a) any building or structure whatever, whether completed or not; or (b) any vessel, whether completed or not; or (c) any stack of cultivated vegetable produce, or of mineral or vegetable fuel; or (d) a mine, or the workings, fittings or appliance…
Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 332; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch fire from it, is guilty of a felony and is liable to…
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to, cuts down, destroys or seriously or permanently injures— (a) a crop of cultivated produce, whether standing, picked or cut; or (b) a crop of hay or grass under cultivation, whether the natural or indigenous product of the soil or not, and whether…
Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to, cut down, destroy or seriously or permanently injure any such thing as is mentioned in section 334; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch…
Any person who— (a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether completed or not; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress; or (c) with intent to bring a vessel into danger, interferes with any light,…
Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and is liable, if the animal is an animal such as is referred to in section 278, to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, in any other case, to imprisonment for three years.
(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour, and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for five years. (2) If the property in question is a dwelling-house or a vessel,…
Any person who, unlawfully and with intent to destroy or damage any property, puts any explosive substance in any place whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully causes, or is concerned in causing or attempts to cause, any infectious disease to be communicated to or among any animal or animals capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who— (a) wilfully damages, injures or obstructs any work, way, road, building, turnstile, gate, toll bar, fence, weighing machine, engine, tender, carriage, wagon, truck, material or plant, acquired for or belonging to any railway works; or pulls up, removes, defaces or destroys, or in an…
Any person who, wilfully and unlawfully, destroys or damages, or does any act with intent to, or knowing it to be likely that such act will, impair the usefulness or efficiency or prevent or impede the working of, any property used or intended to be used in the service of the Government or any local…
Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, sends, delivers, utters or directly or indirectly causes to be received any letter or writing threatening to burn or destroy any house, barn or other building, or any rick or stack of grain, hay or straw, or other agricultural produce, whether in or unde…
Forgery is the making of a false document with intent to defraud or to deceive.
In this division of this Code, “document” does not include a trade mark or any other sign used in connexion with articles of commerce though they may be written or printed or in electronic form.
Any person makes a false document who— (a) makes a document purporting to be what in fact it is not; or (b) alters a document without authority in such a manner that if the alteration had been authorized it would have altered the effect of the document; or (c) introduces into a document without auth…
An intent to defraud is presumed to exist if it appears that at the time when the false document was made there was in existence a specific person ascertained or unascertained capable of being defrauded thereby, and this presumption is not rebutted by proof that the offender took or intended to take…
Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence which, unless otherwise stated, is a felony and he is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.
(1) Any person who forges any will, document of title to land, judicial record, power of attorney, bank note, currency note, bill of exchange, promissory note or other negotiable instrument, policy of insurance, cheque or other authority for the payment of money by a person carrying on business as a…
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who— (a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue or accounting by any Government department; or (b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making the i…