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• 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.