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• Section 31 - Compensation
  

  Any person who is convicted of an offence may be adjudged to make compensation to any person injured by his offence, and the compensation may be either in addition to or in substitution for any other...

• Section 32 - Costs
  

  Subject to the limitations imposed by section 171 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75), a court may order any person convicted of an offence to pay the costs of and incidental to the prosecution...

• Section 33 - Security for keeping the peace
  

  A person convicted of an offence not punishable with death may, instead of, or in addition to, any punishment to which he is liable, be ordered to enter into his own recognizance, with or without...

• Section 34 - Recognizances
  

  (1) If at any time the court which convicted an offender is satisfied that he has failed to observe any of the conditions of his recognizance, it may issue a warrant for his apprehension. (2) An...

• Section 35 - Absolute and conditional discharge
  

  (1) Where a court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence is of opinion, having regard to the circumstances including the nature of the offence and the character of the offender, that...

• Section 36 - General punishment for misdemeanours
  

  When in this Code no punishment is specially provided for any misdemeanour, it shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with a fine, or with both.

• Section 37 - Sentences when cumulative
  

  Where a person after conviction for an offence is convicted of another offence, either before sentence is passed upon him under the first conviction or before the expiration of that sentence, any...

• Section 38 - Sentence on escaped convict
  

  When sentence is passed under this Code on an escaped convict, that sentence— (a) if of death, or fine, shall, subject to the provisions of this Code, take effect immediately; (b) if of...

• Section 39 - Cancellation or suspension of certificate of competency
  

  ) Where any person has been convicted under this Code of an offence connected with the driving of any vehicle in respect of which a certificate of competency is required, the court before which the...

• Section 40 - Treason
  

  ) Any person who, owing allegiance to the Republic, in Kenya or elsewhere— (a) compasses, imagines, invents, devises or intends— (i) the death, maiming or wounding, or the imprisonment or...

• Section 42 - Concealment of treason
  

  Any person who — (a) becomes an accessory after the fact to treason; or (b) knowing that any person intends to commit treason, does not give information thereof with all reasonable despatch to the...

• Section 43 - Treasonable felony
  

  Any person who, not owing allegiance to the Republic, in Kenya or elsewhere, commits any act or combination of acts which, if it were committed by a person who owed such allegiance, would amount to...

• Section 43A - Treachery
  

  Any person who, with intent to help the enemy, does any act which is designed or likely to give assistance to the enemy, or to interfere with the maintenance of public order or the government of...

• Section 44 - Promoting warlike undertaking
  

  Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on, or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or advises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike undertaking with, for, by...

• Section 45 - Provisions as to trial for treason, etc.
  

  (1) A person cannot be tried for treason, or for any of the felonies defined in sections 42, 43, 43A and 44, unless the prosecution is commenced within two years after the offence is committed....

• Section 46 - Dissuasion from enlistment
  

  Any person who wilfully dissuades or attempts to dissuade any other person from entering the disciplined forces or the police force is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five...

• Section 47 - Inciting to mutiny
  

  Any person who advisedly attempts to effect any of the following purposes, that is to say— (a) to seduce any member of the disciplined forces or any police officer from his duty or allegiance; or...

• Section 48 - Aiding, etc., to mutiny, or inciting sedition or disobedience
  

  Any person who— (a) aids or abets, or is accessory to, any act of mutiny by, or (b) incites to sedition or to disobedience to any lawful order given by a superior officer, any member of the...

• Section 49 - Inducing desertion
  

  Any person who, by any means whatever, directly or indirectly— (a) procures or persuades or attempts to procure or persuade to desert, or (b) aids or abets, or is accessory to, the desertion of,...

• Section 50 - Aiding prisoners of war to escape
  

  Any person who— (a) knowingly and advisedly aids an alien enemy, being a prisoner of war in Kenya, whether the prisoner is confined in a prison or elsewhere or is suffered to be at large on his...

• Section 51 - Definition of overt act
  

  In the case of any of the offences defined in this Chapter, when the manifestation by an overt act of an intention to effect any purpose is an element of the offence, every act of conspiring with any...

• Section 52 - Power to prohibit publications
  

  (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...

• Section 53 - Penalty for prohibited publications
  

  (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,...

• Section 54 - Seizure and disposal of prohibited publications
  

  (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...

• Section 59 - Unlawful oaths to commit capital offences
  

  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...

• Section 60 - Administration of unlawful oaths to commit capital offences
  

  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...

• Section 61 - Unlawful oaths to commit other offences
  

  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...

• Section 62 - Compelling another person to take an oath
  

  (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...

• Section 63 - Compulsion, how far a defence
  

  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...

• Section 64 - Presence at oath administration
  

  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...

• Section 65 - Unlawful drilling
  

  (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...

• Section 66 - Alarming publications
  

  (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...

• Section 67 - Defamation of foreign princes
  

  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...

• Section 68 - Foreign enlistment
  

  (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...

• Section 77 - Subversive activities
  

  (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...

• Section 78 - Definition of unlawful assembly and riot
  

  (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...

• Section 79 - Punishment of unlawful assembly
  

  Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

• Section 80 - Punishment of riot
  

  Any person who takes part in a riot is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 81 - Proclamation for rioters to disperse
  

  (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...

• Section 82 - Dispersal of rioters after proclamation
  

  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...

• Section 83 - Rioting after proclamation.
  

  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...

• Section 84 - Preventing or obstructing proclamation
  

  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...

• Section 85 - Rioters demolishing buildings, etc.
  

  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...

• Section 86 - Rioters injuring buildings, machinery, etc.
  

  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.

• Section 87 - Riotously interfering with railway, vehicle or vessel
  

  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...

• Section 88 - Going armed in public
  

  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.

• Section 89 - Possession of firearms, etc.
  

  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,...

• Section 90 - Forcible entry
  

  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...

• Section 91 - Forcible detainer
  

  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...

• Section 92 - Affray
  

  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.