- Section 296 of Penal Code CAP 63: Punishment of robbery
(1) Any person who commits the felony of robbery is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(2) If the offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument, or is in company with one or more other person or persons, or if, at or immediately before or immediately after the time...
- Section 297 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempted robbery
(1) Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen, or to prevent or overcome...
- Section 298 of Penal Code CAP 63: Assault with intent to steal
Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 299 of Penal Code CAP 63: Demanding property by written threats
Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person, and knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing demanding anything from any person without reasonable or probable cause, and containing threats of any injury or detriment of any kind to be...
- Section 300 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts at extortion by threats
(1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person—
(a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any felony or...
- Section 301 of Penal Code CAP 63: Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats
Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing or threatening to accuse any person of committing any felony or...
- Section 302 of Penal Code CAP 63: Demanding property with menaces
Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
- Section 303 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of breaking and entering
(1) A person who breaks any part, whether external or internal, of a building, or opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing, lifting or any other means whatever any door, window, shutter, cellar flap or other thing intended to close or cover an opening in a building, or an opening giving passage from one...
- Section 304 of Penal Code CAP 63: Housebreaking and burglary
(1) Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein; or
(b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein, or having committed a felony in any such...
- Section 305 of Penal Code CAP 63: Entering dwelling-house with intent to commit felony
(1) Any person who enters or is in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
(2) If the offence is committed in the night, the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years....
- Section 306 of Penal Code CAP 63: Breaking into building and committing felony
Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office, counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any building belonging to a public body, or any building or part of a building licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor, or a building which is...
- Section 307 of Penal Code CAP 63: Breaking into building with intent to commit felony
Any person who breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office, counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any building belonging to a public body, or any building or part of a building licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor, or a building which is adjacent...
- Section 308 of Penal Code CAP 63: Preparations to commit felony
(1) Any person found armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon in circumstances that indicate that he was so armed with intent to commit any felony is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment of not less than seven years and not more than fifteen years.
(2) Any person who, when not at...
- Section 309 of Penal Code CAP 63: Repealed by Act No. 48 of 1962, s. 13(1).
Repealed by Act No. 48 of 1962, s. 13(1).
- Section 310 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forfeiture of housebreaking instruments
When any person is convicted of an offence under this Chapter, the court may order that any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument of housebreaking carried or used in connexion with any such offence shall be forfeited.
- Section 311 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forfeiture of aircraft, vessel or vehicle, and penalty for interfering with aircraft, vessel or vehicle when detained
(1) Where any person is convicted of an offence, or of an attempt to commit an offence or of counselling or procuring the commission of an offence, under the provisions of this Chapter, or of Chapter XXVI or Chapter XXVIII or section 322, and the court by which the person is convicted finds that any...
- Section 312 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of false pretence
Any representation, made by words, writing or conduct, of a matter of fact, either past or present, which representation is false in fact, and which the person making it knows to be false or does not believe to be true, is a false pretence.
- Section 313 of Penal Code CAP 63: Obtaining by false pretences
Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 314 of Penal Code CAP 63: Obtaining execution of a security by false pretences
Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, induces any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write any name or impress or affix any seal upon or to any paper or parchment in order that it may be...
- Section 315 of Penal Code CAP 63: Cheating
Any person who by means of any fraudulent trick or device obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen or to pay or deliver to any person any money or goods or any greater sum of money or greater...
- Section 316 of Penal Code CAP 63: Obtaining credit, etc., by false pretences
Any person who—
(a) in incurring any debt or liability, obtains credit by any false pretence or by means of any other fraud; or
(b) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, makes or causes to be made any gift, delivery or transfer of or any charge on his property; or
(c) with...
- Section 316A of Penal Code CAP 63: Bad cheques
(1) Any person who draws or issues a cheque on an account is guilty of a misdemeanour if the person—
(a) knows that the account has insufficient funds;
(b) knows that the account has been closed; or
(c) has previously instructed the bank or other institution at which the account is held not to...
- Section 316B of Penal Code CAP 63: Certain felonies by banks or other institutions
(1) A bank or other institution is guilty of a felony if it—
(a) with intent to conceal its true financial position, holds a cheque or similar instrument that cannot be settled for the amount due thereon;
(b) assists a person to obtain money or credit on the basis of a cheque
drawn or issued...
- Section 317 of Penal Code CAP 63: Conspiracy to defraud
Any person who conspires with another by deceit or any fraudulent means to affect the market price of anything publicly sold, or to defraud the public or any person, whether a particular person or not, or to extort any property from any person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to...
- Section 318 of Penal Code CAP 63: Frauds on sale or mortgage of property
Any person who, being a seller or mortgagor of any property, or being the advocate or agent of any such seller or mortgagor, with intent to induce the purchaser or mortgagee to accept the title offered or produced to him, and with intent to defraud—
(a) conceals from the purchaser or mortgagee any...
- Section 319 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fortune-telling
Any person who for gain or reward undertakes to tell fortunes, or pretends from his skill or knowledge in any occult science to discover where or in what manner anything supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 320 of Penal Code CAP 63: Obtaining registration, etc., by false pretence
Any person who wilfully procures or attempts to procure for himself or any other person any registration, licence or certificate under any law by any false pretence is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
- Section 321 of Penal Code CAP 63: False declaration for passport
Any person who makes a statement which is to his knowledge untrue for the purpose of procuring a passport, whether for himself or for any other person, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 322 of Penal Code CAP 63: Handling stolen goods
(1) A person handles stolen goods if (otherwise than in the course of the stealing) knowing or having reason to believe them to be stolen goods he dishonestly receives or retains the goods, or dishonestly undertakes, or assists in, their retention, removal, disposal or realization by or for the...
- Section 323 of Penal Code CAP 63: Person suspected of having or conveying stolen property
Any person who has been detained as a result of the exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75) and is charged with having in his possession or conveying in any manner anything which may be reasonably suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained,...