Section 351 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forgery of judicial or official document
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
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- Section 352 - Forgery of, and other offences in relation to, stamps
Any person who—
(a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue or accounting by any Government department; or
(b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof...
- Section 353 - Uttering false documents
Any person who knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the thing in question.
- Section 354 - Uttering cancelled or exhausted documents
Any person who knowingly utters as and for a subsisting and effectual document any document or electronic record which has by any lawful authority been ordered to be revoked, cancelled or suspended,...
- Section 355 - Procuring execution of documents by false pretences
Any person who, by means of any false and fraudulent representations as to the nature, contents or operation of a document or electronic record, procures another to sign or execute the document or...
- Section 356 - Altering crossings on cheques
Any person who, with intent to defraud—
(a) obliterates, adds to or alters the crossing on a cheque; or
(b) knowingly utters a crossed cheque, the crossing on which has been obliterated, added to...
- Section 357 - Making documents without authority
Any person who, with intent to defraud or to deceive—
(a) without lawful authority or excuse makes, signs or executes for or in the name or on account of another person, whether by procuration or...
- Section 358 - Demanding property upon forged testamentary instruments
Any person who procures the delivery or payment to himself or any other person of any property or money by virtue of any probate or letters of administration granted upon a forged testamentary...
- Section 359 - Purchasing forged notes
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, imports or purchases, or receives from any person, or has in his possession, a forged bank note or currency note,...
- Section 360 - Falsifying warrants for money payable under public authority
Any person who, being employed in the public service, knowingly and with intent to defraud makes out or delivers to any person a warrant for the payment of any money payable by public authority, for a...
- Section 361 - Falsification of register
Any person who, having the actual custody of any register or record kept by lawful authority, knowingly permits any entry which in any material particular is to his knowledge false, to be made in the...
- Section 362 - Sending false certificate of marriage to registrar
Any person who signs or transmits to a person authorized by law to register marriages a certificate of marriage, or any document purporting to be a certificate of marriage, which in any material...
- Section 363 - False statements for registers of births, deaths and marriages
Any person who knowingly, and with intent to procure the same to be inserted in a register of births, deaths or marriages, makes any false statement touching any matter required by law to be...
- Section 364 - Definitions
In this Chapter—
“coin” includes any coin which is legal tender in Kenya by virtue of the
Central Bank of Kenya Act (Cap. 491), and any coin of a foreign Sovereign or State;
“counterfeit coin”...
- Section 365 - Counterfeiting coin
Any person who makes or begins to make any counterfeit coin is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
- Section 366 - Preparations for coining
Any person who—
(a) gilds or silvers any piece of metal of a fit size or figure to be coined, with intent that it shall be coined into counterfeit coin; or
(b) makes any piece of metal into a fit...
- Section 367 - Making or having in possession papers or implements for forgery
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him—
(a) makes, uses or knowingly has in his custody or possession any
paper intended to resemble and pass as a...
- Section 367A - Mutilating currency notes
Any person who wilfully and without lawful authority or excuse defaces, tears, cuts or otherwise mutilates any currency note shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for a...
- Section 368 - Clipping
Any person who deals with any coin in such a manner as to diminish its weight with intent that when so dealt with it may pass as coin is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven...
- Section 369 - Melting down of currency
Any person who melts down, breaks up, defaces by stamping thereon any name, word or mark, or uses otherwise than as currency any coin current for the time being in Kenya is guilty of a misdemeanour...
- Section 370 - Impounding and destruction of counterfeit coins
(1) Any officer of the Government or the manager of any bank who receives, during the performance of his duties, any coin which he has reasonable ground for believing to be counterfeit coin shall...
- Section 371 - Possession of clippings
Any person who unlawfully has in his possession or disposes of any filings, or clipping of gold or silver, or any gold or silver in bullion, dust, solution, or any other state, obtained by dealing...
- Section 372 - Uttering counterfeit coin
Any person who utters any counterfeit coin, knowing it to be counterfeit, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 373 - Repeated uttering
Any person who—
(a) utters any counterfeit coin knowing it to be counterfeit, and at the time of such uttering has in his possession any other counterfeit coin; or
(b) utters any counterfeit coin...
- Section 374 - Uttering metal or coin not current as coin
(1) Any person who, with intent to defraud, utters as and for coin any medal or piece of metal is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
(2) Any person who, with intent...
- Section 375 - Exporting counterfeit coin
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, exports or puts on board of a vessel or vehicle of any kind for the purpose of being exported any counterfeit coin...
- Section 376 - Selling articles bearing designs in imitation of currency
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof whereof lies upon him, sells or offers or exposes for sale any article which bears a design in imitation of any currency or bank note or...
- Section 377 - Forfeiture
When any person is convicted of an offence under this Chapter or under Chapter XXXV, the court shall order the forfeiture of any forged bank note or currency note or of any counterfeit coin or any...
- Section 378 - Possession of die used for making stamps
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him—
(a) makes or mends, or begins or prepares to make or mend, or uses, or knowingly has in his possession, or...
- Section 379 - Paper and dies for postage stamps
(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him—
(a) makes, or begins or prepares to make, or uses for any postal purpose, or has in his possession, or...
- Section 380 - Trade marks defined
A trade mark is—
(a) a mark, other than a trade mark registered under the Trade Marks Act (Cap. 506), lawfully used by any person to denote any chattel to be an article or thing of the manufacture,...
- Section 381 - Counterfeiting trade marks
(1) Any person who does any of the following things, that is to say—
(a) forges or counterfeits any trade mark;
(b) applies any trade mark, or any forged or counterfeit trade mark, to any chattel...
- Section 382 - Personation in general
(1) Any person who, with intent to defraud any person, falsely represents himself to be some other person, living or dead, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
(2) If the representation is that the offender...
- Section 383 - Falsely acknowledging deeds, recognizances, etc
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, makes in the name of any other person, before any court or person lawfully authorized to take such an...
- Section 384 - Personation of a person named in a certificate
Any person who utters any document which has been issued by lawful authority to another person, whereby that other person is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification recognized by law...
- Section 385 - Lending, etc., certificate for personation
Any person who, being a person to whom any document has been issued by lawful authority whereby he is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification recognized by law for any purpose, or to...
- Section 386 - Personation of person named in testimonial
Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining any employment, utters any document of the nature of a testimonial of character given to another person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to...
- Section 387 - Lending, etc., testimonial for personation
Any person who, being a person to whom any such document as is mentioned in section 386 has been given, gives, sells or lends the document to another person with the intent that that other person may...
- Section 388 - Attempt defined
(1) When a person, intending to commit an offence, begins to put his intention into execution by means adapted to its fulfillment, and manifests his intention by some overt act, but does not fulfill...
- Section 389 - Attempts to commit offences.
Any person who attempts to commit a felony or a misdemeanour is guilty of an offence and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to one-half of such punishment as may be provided for the...
- Section 391 - Soliciting or inciting others to commit offence
Any person who solicits or incites or attempts to procure another to do any act or make any omission, whether in Kenya or elsewhere, of such a nature that, if the act were done or the omission were...
- Section 392 - Neglect to prevent felony
Every person who, knowing that a person designs to commit or is committing a felony, fails to use all reasonable means to prevent the commission or completion thereof is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 393 - Conspiracy to commit felony
Any person who conspires with another to commit any felony, or to do any act in any part of the world which if done in Kenya would be a felony, and which is an offence under the laws in force in the...
- Section 394 - Conspiracy to commit misdemeanour
Any person who conspires with another to commit a misdemeanour, or to do any act in any part of the world which if done in Kenya would be a misdemeanour, and which is an offence under the laws in...
- Section 395 - Other conspiracies
Any person who conspires with another to effect any of the purposes following, that is to say—
(a) to prevent or defeat the execution or enforcement of any written law; or
(b) to cause any injury...
- Section 396 - Definition of accessories after the fact
(1) A person who receives or assists another who is, to his knowledge, guilty of an offence, in order to enable him to escape punishment, is said to become an accessory after the fact to the offence....
- Section 397 - Punishment of accessories after the fact to felonies
Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to a felony is guilty of a felony and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 398 - Punishment of accessories after the fact to misdemeanours
Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to a misdemeanour is guilty of a misdemeanour.