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Section 378 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 disposes of, any die, plate or instrument capable of making an impression resembling that made by any die, plate or instrument used for the purpose of making any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, which is used for the purposes of the public revenue or of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation in Kenya or in any foreign country, or capable of producing in or on paper any words, figures, letters, marks or lines resembling any words, figures, letters, marks or lines used in or on any paper specially provided by the proper authority for any such purpose; or
(b) knowingly has in his possession or disposes of any paper or other material which has on it the impression of any such die, plate or instrument, or any paper which has on it or in it any such words, figures, letters, marks or lines as aforesaid; or
(c) fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any such
stamp as aforesaid, or of any part of it, removes the stamp from any material in any way whatever; or
(d) fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any part of such stamp, mutilates the stamp; or
(e) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any such stamp
any stamp or part of a stamp which has been in any way removed from any other material, or out of or from any other stamp; or
(f) fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any such stamp which has been already impressed upon or attached to any material, erases or otherwise removes, either really or apparently, from such material anything whatever written on it; or
(g) knowingly has in his possession or disposes of anything obtained or prepared by any such unlawful act as aforesaid; or
(h) fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, uses for any purpose a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue which he knows to have been before used,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years, and any die, plate, instrument, paper or other thing as aforesaid which are found in his possession shall be forfeited.

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