- Section 129 of Penal Code CAP 63: False information to person employed in the public service
Whoever gives to any person employed in the public service any information which he knows or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, the person employed in the public service—
(a) to do or omit anything which the person employed in...
- Section 130 of Penal Code CAP 63: Disobedience of statutory duty
Everyone who wilfully disobeys any written law by doing any act which it forbids, or by omitting to do any act which it requires to be done, and which concerns the public or any part of the public, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable, unless it appears from the written law that it was the...
- Section 131 of Penal Code CAP 63: Disobedience of lawful orders
Everyone who disobeys any order, warrant or command duly made, issued or given by any court, officer or any person acting in any public capacity and duly authorized in that behalf, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable, unless any other penalty or mode of proceeding is expressly prescribed in...
- Section 132 of Penal Code CAP 63: Undermining authority of public officer
Any person who, without lawful excuse, the burden of proof whereof shall lie upon him, utters, prints, publishes any words, or does any act or thing, calculated to bring into contempt, or to excite defiance of or disobedience to, the lawful authority of a public officer or any class of public...
- Section 133 of Penal Code CAP 63: Destruction, etc., of statutory documents
(1) Any person who, knowingly and without lawful authority or excuse, destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, abandons or fails to preserve any statutory document is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six...
- Section 134 of Penal Code CAP 63: Insult to religion
Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object which is held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction, damage or...
- Section 135 of Penal Code CAP 63: Disturbing religious assemblies
Any person who voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremony is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 136 of Penal Code CAP 63: Trespassing on burial places
Every person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby, commits any trespass in any...
- Section 137 of Penal Code CAP 63: Hindering burial of dead body, etc.
Whoever unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or without lawful authority in that behalf disinters, dissects or harms the dead body of any person, or, being under a duty to cause the dead body of any person to be buried, fails to perform that duty, is guilty of a...
- Section 138 of Penal Code CAP 63: Writing or uttering words with intent to wound religious feelings
Any person who, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any other person, writes any word, or any person who, with the like intention, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of any other person or makes any gesture or places any object in the sight of any other...
- Section 146 of Penal Code CAP 63: Defilement of idiots or imbeciles
Any person who, knowing a person to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her under circumstances not amounting to rape, but which prove that the offender knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person was an idiot or imbecile, is...
- Section 151 of Penal Code CAP 63: Detention of females for immoral purposes
(1) Any person who detains any other person against his or her will—
(a) in or upon any premises with intent that he or she may have
unlawful sexual connection with any person, whether any particular person or generally; or
(b) in any brothel, is guilty of a felony.
(2) A person in or upon...
- Section 152 of Penal Code CAP 63: Power of search for persons detained
(1) If it appears to any magistrate, on information laid before him on oath by—
(a) any parent, relative or guardian of a person named in the information; or
(b) any other informant who, in the opinion of the magistrate, is acting bona fide in the interests of the person so named, that there is...
- Section 153 of Penal Code CAP 63: Male person living on earnings of prostitution or soliciting
(1) Every male person who—
(a) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or
(b) in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes,
is guilty of a felony.
(2) Where a male person is proved to live with or to be habitually in the company of a...
- Section 154 of Penal Code CAP 63: Woman living on earnings of prostitution or aiding, etc., prostitution
Every woman who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution, or who is proved to have, for the purpose of gain, exercised control, direction or influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that she is aiding, abetting or compelling her prostitution...
- Section 155 of Penal Code CAP 63: Premises used for prostitution
If it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a house is used by a woman or girl for the purposes of prostitution, and that any person residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of...
- Section 156 of Penal Code CAP 63: Brothels
Any person who—
(a) keeps or manages or assists in the management of a brothel; or
(b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier, or person in charge, of any
premises, knowingly permits the premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel; or
(c) being the lessor or landlord of any premises,...
- Section 157 of Penal Code CAP 63: Conspiracy to defile
(1) Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any man to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
(2) Any person who conspires with another...
- Section 158 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempts to procure abortion
Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to...
- Section 159 of Penal Code CAP 63: The like by woman with child
Any woman who, being with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, or permits any such thing or means to be administered or used to her, is guilty of a...
- Section 160 of Penal Code CAP 63: Supplying drugs or instruments to procure abortion
Any person who unlawfully supplies to or procures for any person any thing whatever, knowing that it is intended to be unlawfully used to procure the miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 162 of Penal Code CAP 63: Unnatural offences.
Any person who—
(a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or
(b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or
(c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen...
- Section 163 of Penal Code CAP 63: Attempt to commit unnatural offences
Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences specified in section 162 is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 165 of Penal Code CAP 63: Indecent practices between males
Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any male person with himself or with another male...
- Section 171 of Penal Code CAP 63: Bigamy
Any person who, having a husband or wife living, goes through a ceremony of marriage which is void by reason of its taking place during the life of the husband or wife, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years:
Provided that this section shall not extend to any person...
- Section 172 of Penal Code CAP 63: Marriage with dishonest or fraudulent intent
Any person who dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention goes through the ceremony of marriage, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 173 of Penal Code CAP 63: Master not providing for servants or apprentices
Any person who being legally liable, either as master or mistress, to provide for any apprentice or servant necessary food, clothing or lodging, wilfully and without lawful excuse refuses or neglects to provide the same, or unlawfully and maliciously does or causes to be done any bodily harm to such...
- Section 174 of Penal Code CAP 63: Child stealing
(1) Any person who, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of fourteen years of the possession of the child—
(a) forcibly or fraudulently takes or entices away or detains the child; or
(b) receives or harbours the...
- Section 175 of Penal Code CAP 63: Common nuisance
(1) Any person who does an act not authorized by law or omits to discharge a legal duty and thereby causes any common injury, or danger or annoyance, or obstructs or causes inconvenience to the public in the exercise of common rights, commits the misdemeanour termed a common nuisance and is liable...
- Section 181 of Penal Code CAP 63: Traffic in obscene publications
(1) Any person who—
(a) for the purpose of or by way of trade or for the purpose of distribution or public exhibition, makes, produces or has in his possession any one or more obscene writings, drawings, prints, paintings, printed matter, pictures, posters, emblems, photographs, cinematograph...