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• Section 131 - Disobedience of lawful orders
  

  Everyone who disobeys any order, warrant or command duly made, issued or given by any court, officer or any person acting in any public capacity and duly authorized in that behalf, is guilty of a...

• Section 132 - Undermining authority of public officer
  

  Any person who, without lawful excuse, the burden of proof whereof shall lie upon him, utters, prints, publishes any words, or does any act or thing, calculated to bring into contempt, or to excite...

• Section 133 - Destruction, etc., of statutory documents
  

  (1) Any person who, knowingly and without lawful authority or excuse, destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, abandons or fails to preserve any statutory document is guilty of an offence and is liable...

• Section 134 - Insult to religion
  

  Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object which is held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons...

• Section 135 - Disturbing religious assemblies
  

  Any person who voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremony is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 136 - Trespassing on burial places
  

  Every person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded,...

• Section 137 - Hindering burial of dead body, etc.
  

  Whoever unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or without lawful authority in that behalf disinters, dissects or harms the dead body of any person, or, being under a duty to...

• Section 138 - Writing or uttering words with intent to wound religious feelings
  

  Any person who, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any other person, writes any word, or any person who, with the like intention, utters any word or makes any sound in...

• Section 146 - Defilement of idiots or imbeciles
  

  Any person who, knowing a person to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her under circumstances not amounting to rape, but which prove that the...

• Section 151 - Detention of females for immoral purposes
  

  (1) Any person who detains any other person against his or her will— (a) in or upon any premises with intent that he or she may have unlawful sexual connection with any person, whether any...

• Section 152 - Power of search for persons detained
  

  (1) If it appears to any magistrate, on information laid before him on oath by— (a) any parent, relative or guardian of a person named in the information; or (b) any other informant who, in the...

• Section 153 - Male person living on earnings of prostitution or soliciting
  

  (1) Every male person who— (a) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or (b) in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes, is guilty...

• Section 154 - Woman living on earnings of prostitution or aiding, etc., prostitution
  

  Every woman who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution, or who is proved to have, for the purpose of gain, exercised control, direction or influence over the movements of a...

• Section 155 - Premises used for prostitution
  

  If it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a house is used by a woman or girl for the purposes of prostitution, and...

• Section 156 - Brothels
  

  Any person who— (a) keeps or manages or assists in the management of a brothel; or (b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier, or person in charge, of any premises, knowingly permits the premises...

• Section 157 - Conspiracy to defile
  

  (1) Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any man to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her is guilty of...

• Section 158 - Attempts to procure abortion
  

  Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any...

• Section 159 - The like by woman with child
  

  Any woman who, being with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means...

• Section 160 - Supplying drugs or instruments to procure abortion
  

  Any person who unlawfully supplies to or procures for any person any thing whatever, knowing that it is intended to be unlawfully used to procure the miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not...

• Section 162 - Unnatural offences.
  

  Any person who— (a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or (b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or (c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her...

• Section 163 - Attempt to commit unnatural offences
  

  Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences specified in section 162 is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 165 - Indecent practices between males
  

  Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or...

• Section 171 - Bigamy
  

  Any person who, having a husband or wife living, goes through a ceremony of marriage which is void by reason of its taking place during the life of the husband or wife, is guilty of a felony and is...

• Section 172 - Marriage with dishonest or fraudulent intent
  

  Any person who dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention goes through the ceremony of marriage, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment...

• Section 173 - Master not providing for servants or apprentices
  

  Any person who being legally liable, either as master or mistress, to provide for any apprentice or servant necessary food, clothing or lodging, wilfully and without lawful excuse refuses or neglects...

• Section 174 - Child stealing
  

  (1) Any person who, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of fourteen years of the possession of the child—...

• Section 175 - Common nuisance
  

  (1) Any person who does an act not authorized by law or omits to discharge a legal duty and thereby causes any common injury, or danger or annoyance, or obstructs or causes inconvenience to the public...

• Section 181 - Traffic in obscene publications
  

  (1) Any person who— (a) for the purpose of or by way of trade or for the purpose of distribution or public exhibition, makes, produces or has in his possession any one or more obscene writings,...

• Section 182 - Idle and disorderly persons
  

  The following persons— (a) every common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in any public place; (b) every person causing, procuring or encouraging any person to beg or gather...

• Section 184 - Unauthorized uniforms
  

  (1) Any person who, not being a person serving in the disciplined forces or the police force, or any other armed forces for the time being lawfully present in Kenya, wears without the permission of...

• Section 185 - Wearing uniforms declared to be for exclusive use
  

  (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, upon the application of any persons who perform, or who are members of any organization which performs, any service which in his opinion is in the...

• Section 186 - Spreading infection
  

  Any person who unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life, is guilty of a...

• Section 191 - Fouling water
  

  Any person who voluntarily corrupts or fouls the water of any public spring or reservoir, so as to render it less fit for the purpose for which it is ordinarily used, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 192 - Fouling air
  

  Any person who voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place, so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a...

• Section 193 - Offensive trades
  

  Any person who, for the purposes of trade or otherwise, makes loud noises or offensive or unwholesome smells in such places and circumstances as to annoy any considerable number of persons in the...

• Section 194 - Definition of libel
  

  Any person who, by print, writing, painting or effigy, or by any means otherwise than solely by gestures, spoken words or other sounds, unlawfully publishes any defamatory matter concerning another...

• Section 195 - Definition of defamatory matter.
  

  Defamatory matter is matter likely to injure the reputation of any person by exposing him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or likely to damage any person in his profession or trade by an injury to his...

• Section 196 - Definition of publication
  

  (1) A person publishes a libel if he causes the print, writing, painting, effigy or other means by which the defamatory matter is conveyed to be so dealt with, either by exhibition, reading,...

• Section 197 - Definition of unlawful publication
  

  Any publication of defamatory matter concerning a person is unlawful within the meaning of this Chapter, unless— (a) the matter is true and it was for the public benefit that it should be published;...

• Section 198 - Cases in which publication of defamatory matter is absolutely privileged
  

  (1) The publication of defamatory matter is absolutely privileged, and no person shall under any circumstances be liable to punishment under this Code in respect thereof, in any of the following...

• Section 199 - Cases in which publication of defamatory matter is conditionally privileged
  

  A publication of defamatory matter is privileged, on condition that it was published in good faith, if the relation between the parties by and to whom the publication is made is such that the person...

• Section 200 - Explanation as to good faith
  

  A publication of defamatory matter shall be deemed not to have been made in good faith by a person, within the meaning of section 199, if it is made to appear either— (a) that the matter was untrue,...

• Section 202 - Manslaughter
  

  (1) Any person who by an unlawful act or omission causes the death of another person is guilty of the felony termed manslaughter. (2) An unlawful omission is an omission amounting to culpable...

• Section 203 - Murder
  

  Any person who of malice aforethought causes death of another person by an unlawful act or omission is guilty of murder.

• Section 204 - Punishment of murder
  

  Any person convicted of murder shall be sentenced to death.

• Section 205 - Punishment of manslaughter
  

  Any person who commits the felony of manslaughter is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Section 206 - Malice aforethought
  

  Malice aforethought shall be deemed to be established by evidence proving any one or more of the following circumstances— (a) an intention to cause the death of or to do grievous harm to any person,...

• Section 207 - Killing on provocation
  

  When a person who unlawfully kills another under circumstances which, but for the provisions of this section, would constitute murder, does the act which causes death in the heat of passion caused by...

• Section 208 - Provocation defined
  

  (1) The term “provocation” means and includes, except as hereinafter stated, any wrongful act or insult of such a nature as to be likely, when done to an ordinary person or in the presence of an...

• Section 209 - Suicide pacts
  

  (1) It shall be manslaughter, and shall not be murder, for a person acting in pursuance of a suicide pact between him and another to kill the other or be a party to the other killing himself or being...