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• 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...

• Section 210 - Infanticide
  

  Where a woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by...

• Section 211 - Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant woman
  

  Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is found in accordance with the provisions of section 212 to be pregnant, the sentence to be passed on her shall be a sentence of...

• Section 212 - Procedure where woman convicted of capital offence alleges she is pregnant
  

  (1) Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death alleges that she is pregnant, or where the court before whom she is so convicted thinks fit so to order, the question whether or not the...

• Section 213 - Causing death defined
  

  A person is deemed to have caused the death of another person although his act is not the immediate or the sole cause of death in any of the following cases— (a) if he inflicts bodily injury on...

• Section 214 - When child deemed to be a person
  

  A child becomes a person capable of being killed when it has completely proceeded in a living state from the body of its mother, whether it has breathed or not, and whether it has an independent...

• Section 215 - Limitation as to time of death
  

  (1) A person is not deemed to have killed another if the death of that person does not take place within a year and a day of the cause of death. (2) Such period is reckoned inclusive of the day on...

• Section 216 - Responsibility of person who has charge of another
  

  It is the duty of every person having charge of another who is unable by reason of age, sickness, unsoundness of mind, detention or any other cause to withdraw himself from such charge, and who is...

• Section 217 - Duty of masters
  

  It is the duty of every person who as master or mistress has contracted to provide necessary food, clothing or lodging for any servant or apprentice under the age of sixteen years to provide the same;...

• Section 218 - Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
  

  It is the duty of every person who, except in a case of necessity, undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment to any other person, or to do any other lawful act which is or may be...

• Section 219 - Duty of persons in charge of dangerous things
  

  It is the duty of every person who has in his charge or under his control anything, whether living or inanimate, and whether moving or stationary, of such a nature that, in the absence of care or...

• Section 220 - Attempt to murder
  

  Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to cause the death of another; or (b) with intent unlawfully to cause the death of another does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do,...

• Section 221 - Attempt to murder by convict
  

  Any person who, being under a sentence of imprisonment for three years or more, attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Section 222 - Accessory after the fact to murder
  

  Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Section 223 - Threats to kill
  

  (1) Any person who without lawful excuse utters, or directly or indirectly causes any person to receive, a threat, whether in writing or not, to kill any person is guilty of a felony and is liable to...

• Section 224 - Conspiracy to murder
  

  Any person who conspires with any other person to kill any person, whether that person is in Kenya or elsewhere, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

• Section 225 - Aiding suicide
  

  Any person who— (a) procures another to kill himself; or (b) counsels another to kill himself and thereby induces him to do so; or (c) aids another in killing himself, is guilty of a felony...

• Section 226 - Attempting suicide
  

  Any person who attempts to kill himself is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 227 - Concealing birth
  

  Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at or after its birth, is...

• Section 228 - Killing unborn child
  

  Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and had then...

• Section 229 - Disabling in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
  

  Any person who, by any means calculated to choke, suffocate or strangle, and with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanour, or to facilitate the flight of an...

• Section 230 - Stupefying in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
  

  Any person who, with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanour, or to facilitate the flight of an offender after the commission or attempted commission of a felony...

• Section 231 - Acts intended to cause grievous harm or to prevent arrest
  

  Any person who, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable any person, or to do some grievous harm to any person, or to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of any person— (a) unlawfully...

• Section 232 - Preventing escape from wreck
  

  Any person who unlawfully— (a) prevents or obstructs any person who is on board of, or is escaping from, a vessel which is in distress or wrecked, in his endeavours to save his life; or...

• Section 233 - Intentionally endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
  

  Any person who, with intent to injure or to endanger the safety of any person travelling by any railway, whether a particular person or not— (a) places anything on the railway; or (b) deals with...