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• 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.

• Section 247 - Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy
  

  Any person who exhibits any false light, mark or buoy, intending or knowing it to be likely that the exhibition will mislead any navigator, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 248 - Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel
  

  Any person who knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or so loaded as to be unsafe, is guilty of a...

• Section 249 - Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation
  

  Any person who by doing any act, or by omitting to take reasonable care with any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury to any person in any public way or...

• Section 250 - Common assault
  

  Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanour and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for which a greater punishment is provided in this Code, is liable to...

• Section 251 - Assault causing actual bodily harm
  

  Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

• Section 252 - Assault on persons protecting wreck
  

  Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorized in or on account of the execution of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel...

• Section 253 - Other assaults
  

  Any person who— (a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence; or...

• Section 254 - Definition of kidnapping from Kenya
  

  Any person who conveys any person beyond the limits of Kenya without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authorized to consent on behalf of that person, is said to kidnap that person...

• Section 255 - Definition of kidnapping from lawful guardianship
  

  Any person who takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, out of the keeping of a lawful guardian of...

• Section 256 - Definition of abduction
  

  Any person who by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place is said to abduct that person.

• Section 257 - Punishment for kidnapping
  

  Any person who kidnaps any person from Kenya or from lawful guardianship is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 258 - Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder
  

  Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be murdered, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being murdered, is guilty of a felony and is liable to...

• Section 259 - Kidnapping or abducting with intent to confine
  

  Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 260 - Kidnapping or abducting in order to subject to grievous harm, slavery, etc.
  

  Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be subjected, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being subjected to grievous harm, or knowing it to be likely...

• Section 261 - Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement kidnapped or abducted person
  

  Any person who, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person is guilty of a felony and shall be punished in the same manner as if he had...

• Section 262 - Kidnapping or abducting child under fourteen years with intent to steal from its person
  

  Any person who kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of fourteen years with the intention of taking dishonestly any movable property from the person of such child is guilty of a felony and is...

• Section 263 - Punishment for wrongful confinement
  

  Whoever wrongfully confines any person is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of fourteen thousand shillings.

• Section 266 - Unlawful compulsory labour
  

  Any person who unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person is guilty of a misdemeanour.

• Section 266A - Offences Under Part
  

  Where it appears that any of the offences specified under this Part is committed for the purpose of exploitation, the person committing the offence shall be charged with the appropriate offence as...

• Section 267 - Things capable of being stolen
  

  (1) Every inanimate thing whatever which is the property of any person, and which is movable, is capable of being stolen. (2) Every inanimate thing which is the property of any person, and which is...

• Section 268 - Definition of stealing
  

  (1) A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any...

• Section 269 - Special cases
  

  (1) When a factor or agent pledges or gives a lien on any goods or document of title to goods entrusted to him for the purpose of sale or otherwise for any sum of money not greater than the amount due...

• Section 270 - Funds, etc., held under direction
  

  When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money or valuable security or a power of attorney for the sale, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of any property, whether...

• Section 271 - Funds, etc., received by agents for sale
  

  When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any property from another on terms authorizing or requiring him to sell it or otherwise dispose of it, and requiring him to pay or...

• Section 272 - Money received for another
  

  When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money on behalf of another, the money is deemed to be the property of the person on whose behalf it is received, unless the...

• Section 273 - Theft by person having an interest in the thing stolen
  

  When any person takes or converts anything capable of being stolen, under such circumstances as would otherwise amount to theft, it is immaterial that he himself has a special property or interest...

• Section 274 - Husband and wife
  

  A person who, while a man and his wife are living together, procures either of them to deal with anything which is, to his knowledge, the property of the other in a manner which would be theft if they...

• Section 275 - General punishment for theft
  

  Any person who steals anything capable of being stolen is guilty of the felony termed theft and is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the theft or the nature of the thing stolen some other...

• Section 276 - Stealing wills
  

  If the thing stolen is a testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

• Section 277 - Stealing postal matter, etc.
  

  If the thing stolen is postal matter or any chattel, money or valuable security contained in any postal matter, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

• Section 278 - Stealing stock
  

  If the thing stolen is any of the following things, that is to say, a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, ostrich, bull, cow, ox, ram, ewe, wether, goat or pig, or the young thereof the offender...

• Section 278A - Stealing motor vehicle
  

  If the thing stolen is a motor vehicle within the meaning of the Traffic Act (Cap. 403), the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 278B - Stealing fishing gear
  

  If the thing stolen is fishing gear within the meaning of the Fisheries Act, 1988 (Cap. 378), the offender is liable to imprisonment for five years.

• Section 279 - Stealing from the person; stealing goods in transit, etc.
  

  If the theft is committed under any of the circumstances following, that is to say— (a) if the thing is stolen from the person of another; (b) if the thing is stolen in a dwelling-house, and its...

• Section 280 - Stealing by persons in the public service
  

  If the offender is a person employed in the public service and the thing stolen is the property of the Government, or came into the possession of the offender by virtue of his employment, he is liable...

• Section 281 - Stealing by clerks and servants
  

  If the offender is a clerk or servant, and the thing stolen is the property of his employer, or came into the possession of the offender on account of his employer, he is liable to imprisonment for...

• Section 282 - Stealing by directors or officers of companies
  

  If the offender is a director or officer of a corporation or company, and the thing stolen is the property of the corporation or company, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 283 - Stealing by agents, etc.
  

  If the thing stolen is any of the things following, that is to say— (a) property which has been received by the offender with a power of attorney for the disposition thereof; (b) property which...

• Section 284 - Stealing by tenants or lodgers
  

  If the thing stolen is a fixture or chattel let to the offender to be used by him with a house or lodging, and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 285 - Stealing after previous conviction
  

  If the offender, before committing the theft, had been convicted of a theft punishable under any of sections 275 to 284 inclusive, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

• Section 286 - Concealing registers
  

  Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorized or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any...

• Section 287 - Concealing wills
  

  Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.