- Section 324 of Penal Code CAP 63: Marking and possession of public stores
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, give directions as to the marks which may be applied in or on any stores under the control of any branch or department of, and being the property of, the Government of Kenya or the Kenya Railways Corporation and the Kenya Ports Authority.
(2) Any...
- Section 325 of Penal Code CAP 63: Tracing possession
(1) If any person brought or appearing before a court under section 323 or section 324 declares that he received any such thing as therein mentioned from some other person, or that he was employed as a carrier, agent or servant to convey the same for some other person, the court may cause every such...
- Section 326 of Penal Code CAP 63: Receiving goods stolen outside Kenya
Any person who, without lawful excuse, knowing or having reason to believe the same to have been stolen or obtained in any way whatsoever under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in Kenya the person committing it would have been guilty of a felony or misdemeanour, receives or has...
- Section 327 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent disposal of trust property
(1) Any person who, being a trustee of any property, destroys the property with intent to defraud, or, with intent to defraud, converts the property to any use not authorized by the trust, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
(2) For the purposes of this section,...
- Section 328 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent appropriation or accounting by directors or officers
Any person who—
(a) being a director or officer of a corporation or company, receives or possesses himself as such of any of the property of the corporation or company otherwise than in payment of a just debt or demand, and, with intent to defraud, omits either to make a full and true entry...
- Section 329 of Penal Code CAP 63: False statements by officials of companies
Any person who, being a promoter, director, officer or auditor of a corporation or company, either existing or intended to be formed, makes, circulates or publishes, or concurs in making, circulating or publishing, any written statement or account which, in any material particular, is to his...
- Section 330 of Penal Code CAP 63: Fraudulent false accounting by clerk or servant
Any person who, being a clerk or servant, or being employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, does any of the acts following with intent to defraud, that is to say—
(a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, document, valuable security or account which belongs to or is...
- Section 331 of Penal Code CAP 63: False accounting by public officer
(1) Any person who, being an officer charged with the receipt, custody or management of any part of the public revenue or property, knowingly furnishes any false statement or return of any money or property received by him or entrusted to his care, or of any balance of money or property in his...
- Section 332 of Penal Code CAP 63: Arson
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to—
(a) any building or structure whatever, whether completed or not; or
(b) any vessel, whether completed or not; or
(c) any stack of cultivated vegetable produce, or of mineral or vegetable fuel; or
(d) a mine, or the workings, fittings or...
- Section 333 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts to commit arson
Any person who—
(a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 332; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch fire from it,
is guilty of a felony and is...
- Section 334 of Penal Code CAP 63: Setting fire to crops, etc.
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to, cuts down, destroys or seriously or permanently injures—
(a) a crop of cultivated produce, whether standing, picked or cut; or
(b) a crop of hay or grass under cultivation, whether the natural or indigenous product of the soil or not, and...
- Section 335 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempting to set fire to crops, etc.
Any person who—
(a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to, cut down, destroy or seriously or permanently injure any such thing as is mentioned in section 334; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to...
- Section 336 of Penal Code CAP 63: Casting away vessels
Any person who—
(a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether completed or not; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress; or
(c) with intent to bring a vessel into danger, interferes with any...
- Section 337 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts to cast away vessels
Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 338 of Penal Code CAP 63: Injuring animals
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and is liable, if the animal is an animal such as is referred to in section 278, to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, in any other case, to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 339 of Penal Code CAP 63: Malicious injuries to property
(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour, and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for five years.
(2) If the property in question is a dwelling-house or a...
- Section 340 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts to destroy property by explosives
Any person who, unlawfully and with intent to destroy or damage any property, puts any explosive substance in any place whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
- Section 341 of Penal Code CAP 63: Communicating infectious diseases to animals
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully causes, or is concerned in causing or attempts to cause, any infectious disease to be communicated to or among any animal or animals capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 342 of Penal Code CAP 63: Penalties for damage, etc., to railway works
Any person who—
(a) wilfully damages, injures or obstructs any work, way, road, building, turnstile, gate, toll bar, fence, weighing machine, engine, tender, carriage, wagon, truck, material or plant, acquired for or belonging to any railway works; or
pulls up, removes, defaces or destroys, or...
- Section 343 of Penal Code CAP 63: Sabotage
Any person who, wilfully and unlawfully, destroys or damages, or does any act with intent to, or knowing it to be likely that such act will, impair the usefulness or efficiency or prevent or impede the working of, any property used or intended to be used in the service of the Government or any local...
- Section 344 of Penal Code CAP 63: Threats to burn, etc
Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, sends, delivers, utters or directly or indirectly causes to be received any letter or writing threatening to burn or destroy any house, barn or other building, or any rick or stack of grain, hay or straw, or other agricultural produce, whether in or...
- Section 345 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of forgery
Forgery is the making of a false document with intent to defraud or to deceive.
- Section 346 of Penal Code CAP 63: Document
In this division of this Code, “document” does not include a trade mark or any other sign used in connexion with articles of commerce though they may be written or printed or in electronic form.
- Section 347 of Penal Code CAP 63: Making a false document
Any person makes a false document who—
(a) makes a document purporting to be what in fact it is not; or
(b) alters a document without authority in such a manner that if the alteration had been authorized it would have altered the effect of the document; or
(c) introduces into a document...
- Section 348 of Penal Code CAP 63: Intent to defraud
An intent to defraud is presumed to exist if it appears that at the time when the false document was made there was in existence a specific person ascertained or unascertained capable of being defrauded thereby, and this presumption is not rebutted by proof that the offender took or intended to take...
- Section 349 of Penal Code CAP 63: General punishment for forgery
Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence which, unless otherwise stated, is a felony and he is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 350 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forgery of wills, etc.
(1) Any person who forges any will, document of title to land, judicial record, power of attorney, bank note, currency note, bill of exchange, promissory note or other negotiable instrument, policy of insurance, cheque or other authority for the payment of money by a person carrying on business as a...
- Section 351 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forgery of judicial or official document
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 352 of Penal Code CAP 63: Forgery of, and other offences in relation to, stamps
Any person who—
(a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue or accounting by any Government department; or
(b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making...
- Section 353 of Penal Code CAP 63: Uttering false documents
Any person who knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the thing in question.