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Browse Acts ↓If the person in respect of whom an order is made under section 47 is not present in court, the magistrate shall issue a summons requiring him to appear, or, when the person is in custody, a warrant directing the officer in whose custody he is to bring him before the court: Provided that, whenever i…
Every summons or warrant issued under section 49 shall be accompanied by a copy of the order made under section 47, and the copy shall be delivered by the officer serving or executing the summons or warrant to the person served with or arrested under it.
The magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of a person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace, and may permit him to appear by an advocate.
(1) When an order under section 47 has been read or explained under section48 to a person present in court, or when any person appears or is brought before a magistrate in compliance with or in execution of a summons or warrant issued under section 49, the magistrate shall proceed to inquire into th…
(1) If upon an inquiry it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace ormaintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be made subject to a restriction order or should execute a bond, with or without sureties, the magistrate shall make an order acco…
If on an inquiry under section 52 it is not proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be subject to a restriction order or should execute a bond, the magistrate shall make an entry on the record to th…
(1) If a person in respect of whom an order is made under section 47 or section53 is, at the time the order is made, sentenced to or undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, the period of such order shall commence on the expiration of the sentence. (2) In other cases the period shall commence on the d…
of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit or the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, shall be a breach of the bond.
A magistrate may refuse to accept a surety offered under any of the preceding sections of this Part on the ground that, for reasons to be recorded by the magistrate, the surety is an unfit person.
(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 be given commences, he shall, except in the case mentioned in subsection (2), be committed to prison, or, if he is already in prison, be detained in prison until that pe…
Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is of the opinion that a person imprisoned for failing to give security may be released without hazard to the community, the magistrate shall make an immediate report of the case for the orders of the High Court, and that…
The High Court may at any time, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, cancel any order made under section 47 or section 53.
(1) A surety for the peaceable conduct or good behaviour of another personmay at any time apply to a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class to cancel a bond executed under any of the preceding sections of this Part within the local limits of his jurisdiction. (2) On the…
A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the district named in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to comply with any condition attached to that permission, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to impr…
A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the districtnamed in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to comply with any condition attached to that permission, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to impri…
A police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall to the best of his ability prevent, the commission of a cognizable offence.
A police officer receiving information of a design to commit a cognizable offence shall communicate that information to the police officer to whom he is subordinate, and to any other officer whose duty it is to prevent or take cognizance of the commission of the offence.
A police officer knowing of a design to commit a cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a magistrate and without a warrant, the person so designing, if it appears to the officer that the commission of the offence cannot otherwise be prevented.
A police officer may of his own authority interpose to prevent injury attempted to be committed in his view to public property, movable or immovable, or the removal of or injury to any public landmark or buoy or other mark used for navigation.
Every court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of its jurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within Kenya, or which according to law may be dealt with as if it had been committed within Kenya, and to deal with the accused person ac…
Where a person accused of having committed an offence within Kenya has escaped or removed from the province or district within which the offence was committed and is found within another province or district, the court within whose jurisdiction he is found shall cause him to be brought before it, an…
(1) Where a person is to be sent in custody in pursuance of section 67, awarrant shall be issued by the court within whose jurisdiction he is found, and that warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named and to carry him and…
The High Court may inquire into and try any offence subject to its jurisdiction at any place where it has power to hold sittings.
(1) For the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction the High Court shall hold sittings at such places and on such days as the Chief Justice may direct. (2) The Registrar of the High Court shall ordinarily give notice beforehand of all such sittings.
Subject to the provisions of section 69, and to the powers of transfer conferred by sections 79 and 81, every offence shall ordinarily be tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction it was committed, or within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the accused was apprehended, or…
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 ensued, the offence may be tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the thing has been done or the consequence has ensued.
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 doer were capable of committing an offence, a charge of the first-mentioned offence may be tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction either act was don…
When— (a) it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or (b) an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another; or (c) an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more than one local areas; or (d) an offence consists of several…
An offence committed whilst the offender is in the course of performing a journey or voyage may be tried by a court through or into the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offender or the person against whom or the thing in respect of which the offence was committed passed in the course of that j…
(1) Whenever a doubt arises as to the court by which an offence should betried, the court entertaining the doubt may report the circumstances to the High Court, and the High Court shall decide by which court the offence shall be inquired into or tried. (2) Any such decision of the High Court shall b…