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• 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...

• Section 234 - Grievous harm
  

  Any person who unlawfully does grievous harm to another is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Section 235 - Attempting to injure by explosive substances
  

  Any person who unlawfully, and with intent to do any harm to another, puts any explosive substance in any place whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

• Section 236 - Maliciously administering poison with intent to harm
  

  Any person who unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy another, causes any poison or noxious thing to be administered to, or taken by, any person, and thereby endangers his life, or does him...

• Section 237 - Unlawful wounding or poisoning.
  

  Any person who— (a) unlawfully wounds another; or (b) unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy any person, causes any poison or other noxious thing to be administered to, or taken by, any...

• Section 238 - Intimidation and molestation.
  

  (1) Any person who intimidates or molests any other person is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. [Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 29.] (2) A person...

• Section 239 - Failure to supply necessaries
  

  Any person who, being charged with the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, without lawful excuse fails to do so, whereby the life of that other person is or is likely to be...

• Section 240 - Surgical operation
  

  A person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon any person for his benefit, or upon an unborn child for the...

• Section 241 - Excess of force
  

  Any person authorized by law or by the consent of the person injured by him to use force is criminally responsible for any excess, according to the nature and quality of the act which constitutes the...

• Section 242 - Consent
  

  Notwithstanding anything contained in section 241, consent by a person to the causing of his own death or his own maim does not affect the criminal responsibility of any person by whom the death or...

• Section 242A - Supply of harmful substances to children
  

  (1) Any person who supplies or offers to a child— (a) any petroleum distillate, glue or other substance consisting of or containing matter having stupefying or hallucinogenic properties; or...

• Section 243 - Reckless and negligent acts
  

  Any person who, in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or to be likely to cause harm to any other person— (a) drives any vehicle or rides on any public way; or (b) navigates,...

• Section 244 - Other negligent acts causing harm.
  

  Any person who unlawfully does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do, not being an act or omission specified in section 243 by which act or omission harm is caused to any person,...

• Section 245 - Dealing in poisonous substances in negligent manner
  

  Whoever does, with any poisonous substance, any act in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, or knowingly or negligently...

• Section 246 - Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
  

  Any person who, by any unlawful act or omission not specified in section 233, causes the safety of any person travelling by any railway to be endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanour.