- Section 268 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 property, is said to steal that thing or property.
(2) A person who takes anything capable of...
- Section 269 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 to him from his principal at the time of pledging or giving the lien, together with the amount of...
- Section 270 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 capable of being stolen or not, with a direction in either case that such money or any part thereof,...
- Section 271 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 account for the proceeds of the property, or any part of such proceeds, or to deliver anything...
- Section 272 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 money is received on the terms that it shall form an item in a debtor and creditor account, and that...
- Section 273 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 therein, or that he himself is the owner of the thing taken or converted subject to some special...
- Section 274 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 were not married, is deemed to have stolen the thing, and may be charged with theft.
- Section 275 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 276 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 is liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding fourteen years.
- Section 278A of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 value exceeds one hundred shillings, or the offender at or immediately before or after the time of...
- Section 280 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 281 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 seven years.
- Section 282 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 has been entrusted to the offender either alone or jointly with any other person for him to retain in...
- Section 284 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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 property, or for recording births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or a copy of any part of any...
- Section 287 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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.
- Section 288 of Penal Code CAP 63: Concealing deeds
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 289 of Penal Code CAP 63: Killing animals with intent to steal
Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carcass, is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he had stolen the animal.
- Section 290 of Penal Code CAP 63: Severing with intent to steal
Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he had stolen the thing after it had become movable.
- Section 291 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods
(1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee, and with intent to defraud, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
(2) In this section, “mortgaged goods” includes any goods and chattels of any kind, and any animals, and any...
- Section 292 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulently dealing with minerals in mines
Any person who takes, conceals or otherwise disposes of any ore or any metal or mineral in or about a mine, with intent to defraud any person, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 293 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent appropriation of power
Any person who fraudulently abstracts or diverts to his own use or to the use of any other person any mechanical, illuminating or electrical power derived from any machine, apparatus or substance, the property of another person, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 294 of Penal Code CAP 63: Unlawful use of vehicles, animals, etc.
Any person who unlawfully and without colour of right, but not so as to be guilty of stealing, takes or converts to his own use or to the use of any other person any draught or riding animal or any vehicle or cycle, however propelled, or any vessel, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to...
- Section 295 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of robbery
Any person who steals anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of stealing it, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to obtain or retain the thing stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen or retained, is guilty...