- Section 109 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Where warrant may be executed
A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in Kenya.
- Section 110 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Forwarding of warrants for execution outside jurisdiction
(1) When a warrant of arrest is to be executed outside the local limits of thejurisdiction of the court issuing it, the court may, instead of directing the warrant to a police officer, forward it by post or otherwise to a magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction it is to be...
- Section 111 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
(1) When a warrant of arrest directed to a police officer is to be executedoutside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing it, he shall take it for endorsement to a magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction it is to be executed.
(2) The magistrate shall endorse his...
- Section 112 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Procedure on arrest of person outside jurisdiction
(1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court by which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless the court which issued the warrant is within twenty miles of the place of arrest, or is nearer than the magistrate within the local limits of...
- Section 113 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Irregularities in warrant
An irregularity or defect in the substance or form of a warrant, and any variance between it and the written complaint or information, or between either and the evidence produced on the part of the prosecution at a trial, shall not affect the validity of any proceedings at or subsequent to the...
- Section 114 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to take bond for appearance
Where a person for whose appearance or arrest the officer presiding in a court is empowered to issue a summons or warrant is present in court, the officer may require the person to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for his appearance in that court.
- Section 115 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Arrest for breach of bond
When a person who is bound by a bond taken under this Code to appear before a court does not so appear, the officer presiding may issue a warrant directing that the person be arrested and produced before him.
- Section 116 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power of court to order prisoner to be brought before it
(1) Where a person for whose appearance or arrest a court is empoweredto issue a summons or warrant is confined in prison within the local limits of the jurisdiction of that court, the court may issue an order to the officer in charge of the prison requiring him to bring the prisoner in proper...
- Section 117 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Provisions of this Part generally applicable to summonses and warrants
The provisions of this Part relating to a summons and warrant, and their issue, service and execution, shall, so far as may be, apply to every summons and every warrant of arrest issued under this Code.
- Section 118 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to issue search warrant
Where it is proved on oath to a court or a magistrate that anything upon, with or in respect of which an offence has been committed, or anything which is necessary for the conduct of an investigation into an offence, is, or is reasonably suspected to be, in any place, building, ship, aircraft,...
- Section 118A of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Ex-parte application for search warrant
An application for a search warrant under section 118 shall be made ex-parte to a magistrate.
- Section 119 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Execution of search warrants
A search warrant may be issued on any day (including Sunday), and may be executed on any day (including Sunday) between the hours of sunrise and sunset, but the court may, by the warrant, authorize the police officer or other person to whom it is addressed to execute it at any hour.
- Section 120 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Persons in charge of closed place to allow ingress and egress
(1) Whenever a building or other place liable to search is closed, a personresiding in or being in charge of the building or place shall, on demand of the police officer or other person executing the search warrant and on production of the warrant, allow him free ingress thereto and egress therefrom...
- Section 121 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Detention of property seized
(1) When anything is so seized and brought before a court, it may be detaineduntil the conclusion of the case or the investigation, reasonable care being taken for its preservation.
(2) If an appeal is made, or if a person is committed for trial, the court may orderit to be further detained for the...
- Section 122 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Provisions applicable to search warrants
The provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of section 102, and sections 104, 106, 109, 110 and 111, shall, so far as may be, apply to search warrants issued under section 118.
- Section 123 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Bail in certain cases
(1) When a person, other than a person accused of murder, treason, robberywith violence, attempted robbery with violence and any drug related offence is arrested or detained without warrant by an officer in charge of a police station, or appears or is brought before a court, and is prepared at any...
- Section 123A of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Joinder of two or more accused in one charge or information
(1) Subject to Article 49(1)(h) of the Constitution and notwithstanding section 123, in making a decision on bail and bond, the Court shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances and in particular—
(a) the nature or seriousness of the offence;
(b) the character, antecedents, associations...
- Section 124 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Bail bond
Before a person is released on bail or on his own recognizance, a bond for such sum as the court or police officer thinks sufficient shall be executed by that person, and, when he is released on bail, by one or more sufficient sureties, conditioned that the person shall attend at the time and place...
- Section 125 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Discharge from custody
(1) As soon as the bond has been executed, the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be released, and when he is in prison the court admitting him to bail shall issue an order of release to the officer in charge of the prison and the officer on receipt of the order shall release...
- Section 126 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Deposit instead of recognizance
When a person may be required by a court or officer to execute a bond, with or without sureties, the court or officer may, except in the case of a bond for good behaviour, require him to deposit a sum of money to such amount as the court or officer may fix, or to deposit property, in lieu of...
- Section 127 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to order sufficient bail when that first taken is insufficient
If, through mistake, fraud or otherwise, insufficient sureties have been accepted, or if they afterwards become insufficient, the court may issue a warrant of arrest directing that the person released on bail be brought before it, and may order him to find sufficient sureties, and on his failing so...
- Section 128 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Discharge of sureties
(1) All or any of the sureties for the appearance and attendance of a personreleased on bail may at any time apply to a magistrate to discharge the bond either wholly or so far as it relates to the applicant or applicants.
(2) On an application being made under subsection (1) the magistrate...
- Section 129 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Death of surety
Where a surety to a bond dies before the bond is forfeited, his estate shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the bond, but the party who gave the bond may be required to find a new surety.
- Section 130 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Persons bound by recognizance absconding may be committed
If it is made to appear to a court, by information on oath, that a person bound by recognizance is about to leave Kenya, the court may cause him to be arrested and may commit him to prison until the trial, unless the court sees fit to admit him to bail upon further recognizance.
- Section 131 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Forfeiture of recognizance
(1) Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a court by which a recognizance under this Code has been taken, or, when the recognizance is for appearance before a court, to the satisfaction of that court, that the recognizance has been forfeited, the court shall record the grounds of proof, and...
- Section 132 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Appeal from and revision of orders
All orders passed under section 131 by a magistrate shall be appealable to and may be revised by the High Court.
- Section 133 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to direct levy of amount due on certain recognizances
The High Court may direct a magistrate to levy the amount due on recognizance to appear and attend at the High Court.
- Section 134 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Offence to be specified in charge or information with necessary particulars
Every charge or information shall contain, and shall be sufficient if it contains, a statement of the specific offence or offences with which the accused person is charged, together with such particulars as may be necessary for giving reasonable information as to the nature of the offence charged.
- Section 135 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Joinder of counts in a charge or information
(1) Any offences, whether felonies or misdemeanours, may be chargedtogether in the same charge or information if the offences charged are founded on the same facts, or form or are part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character.
(2) Where more than one offence is charged in a charge...
- Section 136 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Joinder of two or more accused in one charge or information
The following persons may be joined in one charge or information and may be tried together—
(a) persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the same transaction;
(b) persons accused of an offence and persons accused of abetment, or of an attempt to commit the...