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• 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.

• Section 93 - Challenge to duel
  

  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....

• Section 94 - Offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace
  

  (1) Any person who in a public place or at a public gathering uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace is...

• Section 95 - Threatening breach of the peace or violence
  

  (1) Any person who— (a) uses obscene, abusive or insulting language, to his employer or to any person placed in authority over him by his employer, in such a manner as is likely to cause a breach...

• Section 96 - Incitement to violence and disobedience of the law
  

  Any person who, without lawful excuse, the burden of proof whereof shall lie upon him, utters, prints or publishes any words, or does any act or thing, indicating or implying that it is or might be...

• Section 97 - Assemblying for smuggling
  

  Any persons who assemble together, to the number of two or more, for the purpose of unshipping, carrying or concealing any goods subject to customs duty and liable to forfeiture under any law relating...

• Section 98 - Wrongfully inducing a boycott
  

  (1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that any boycott is being conducted or is threatened or likely to be conducted in Kenya with the intention or effect of— (a) bringing into hatred or contempt,...

• Section 99 - Officers charged with administration of property of a special character or with special duties
  

  Any person who, being employed in the public service, and being charged by virtue of his employment with any judicial or administrative duties respecting property of a special character, or respecting...

• Section 100 - False claims by persons employed in the public service
  

  Any person who, being employed in the public service in such a capacity as to require him or to enable him to furnish returns or statements touching any sum payable or claimed to be payable to himself...

• Section 101 - Abuse of office
  

  (1) Any person who, being employed in the public service, does or directs to be done, in abuse of the authority of his office, any arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of another is guilty of a...

• Section 102 - False certificates by public officers
  

  Any person who, being authorized or required by law to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the rights of any person may be prejudicially affected, gives a certificate which is,...

• Section 102A - Penalties
  

  A person convicted of an offence under sections 99, 100, 101 or 102 of this Part shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one million shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or...

• Section 103 - Unauthorized administration of oaths
  

  Any person who administers an oath, or takes solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit, touching any matter with respect to which he has not by law any authority to do so is guilty of a...

• Section 104 - False assumption of authority
  

  Any person who— (a) not being a judicial officer, assumes to act as a judicial officer; or (b) without authority assumes to act as a person having authority by law to administer an oath or take a...

• Section 105 - Personating persons employed in the public service
  

  Any person who— (a) personates any person employed in the public service on an occasion when the latter is required to do any act or attend in any place by virtue of his employment; or (b) falsely...

• Section 106 - Threat of injury to persons employed in public service
  

  Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person employed in the public service, or to any person in whom he believes that person employed in the public service to be interested, for the purpose...

• Section 107 - Tampering with public officers, etc.
  

  Any person who— (a) induces or attempts to induce any public officer, or any sailor, soldier or airman being an officer or member of any naval, military or air force for the time being lawfully in...

• Section 108 - Perjury and subornation of perjury
  

  (1) (a) Any person who, in any judicial proceeding, or for the purpose of instituting any judicial proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question...

• Section 109 - False statements by interpreters
  

  If any person, lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding, wilfully makes a statement material in the proceeding which he knows to be false, or does not believe to be true, he shall be...

• Section 110 - Punishment of perjury and subornation of perjury
  

  Any person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 111 - Evidence of perjury or subornation of perjury
  

  A person cannot be convicted of committing perjury or of subornation of perjury solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.

• Section 112 - Contradictory statements
  

  (1) Where a witness in any judicial proceedings (other than a person accused of an offence in criminal proceedings) has made a statement on oath or affirmation of some fact relevant in the...

• Section 112A - Malicious information
  

  (1) Any person who, with intent to cause harm or inconvenience to another person, gives or makes to— (a) any magistrate or member of the police force; or (b) any officer having power to apprehend...

• Section 113 - Fabricating evidence
  

  Any person who, with intent to mislead any tribunal in any judicial proceeding— (a) fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury; or (b) knowingly makes use of...

• Section 114 - False swearing
  

  Any person who swears falsely or makes a false affirmation or declaration before any person authorized to administer an oath or take a declaration upon a matter of public concern under such...

• Section 115 - Deceiving witnesses
  

  Any person who practises any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing to any person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial...

• Section 116 - Destroying evidence
  

  Any person who, knowing that any book, document or thing of any kind whatsoever is or may be required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully removes or destroys it or renders it illegible or...

• Section 117 - Conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses
  

  Any person who— (a) conspires with any other person to accuse any person falsely of any crime or to do anything to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice; or (b) in order to...

• Section 118 - Compounding felonies
  

  Any person who asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any agreement or understanding that he...

• Section 119 - Compounding penal actions
  

  Any person who, having brought, or under pretence of bringing, an action against another person upon a penal law in order to obtain from him a penalty for any offence committed or alleged to have been...

• Section 120 - Advertisements for stolen property
  

  Any person who— (a) publicly offers a reward for the return of any property which has been stolen or lost, and in the offer makes use of any words purporting that no questions will be asked, or that...

• Section 121 - Offences relating to judicial proceedings
  

  (1) Any person who— (a) within the premises in which any judicial proceeding is being had or taken, or within the precincts of the same, shows disrespect, in speech or manner, to or with reference...

• Section 122 - Rescue
  

  (1) Any person who by force rescues or attempts to rescue from lawful custody any other person— (a) is, if the last-named person is under sentence of death or imprisonment for life, or charged with...

• Section 122A - Senior police officer may order DNA sampling procedure on suspect
  

  (1) A police officer of or above the rank of inspector may by order in writing require a person suspected of having committed a serious offence to undergo a DNA sampling procedure if there are...

• Section 122B - Suspect to comply with order
  

  Where a suspect in respect of whom an order has been made under section 122A resists compliance with the order, members of the police force, under supervision of an officer of or above the rank of...

• Section 122C - Suspect may volunteer
  

  (1) Nothing in section 122A shall be construed as preventing a suspect from undergoing a procedure by consent, without any order having been made: Provided that every such consent shall be recorded...

• Section 122D - Order or consent to be proven
  

  The results of any test or analysis carried out on a sample obtained from a DNA sampling procedure within the meaning of section 122A shall not be admissible in evidence at the request of the...

• Section 123 - Escape
  

  Any person who, being in lawful custody, escapes from that custody is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 124 - Aiding escape
  

  Any person who— (a) aids a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from lawful custody; or (b) conveys anything or causes anything to be conveyed into a prison with intent to facilitate the...

• Section 125 - Removal, etc., of property under lawful seizure
  

  Any person who, when any property has been attached or taken under the process of authority of any court, knowingly, and with intent to hinder or defeat the attachment or process, receives, removes,...

• Section 126 - Obstructing court officers
  

  Any person who wilfully obstructs or resists any person lawfully charged with the execution of an order or warrant of any court is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year....