Penal Code

The Act may be cited as the Penal Code and is referred to as "this Code".

Preserves liability, trial or punishment of a person for an offence against the common law or any other law in force in Kenya other than this Code.

Section 3 has been deleted.

Defines an office as "any office the holder of which is appointed or removed by the President or by any public commission."

The courts of Kenya have jurisdiction that covers every place within Kenya, including territorial waters, for the purposes of this Code.

If an act is done partly inside and partly outside the jurisdiction, every person who within the jurisdiction does or makes part of the act may be tried and punished under this Code as if the act were done wholly inside the jurisdiction.

A person acting under an honest and reasonable mistake of fact is not criminally responsible to a greater extent than if the facts were as the person believed.

Every person is presumed to be of sound mind unless the contrary is proved.

A person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if, due to a mental disease, they cannot understand their act or know it is wrong; however, they may be responsible if the disease does not produce those effects.

Intoxication is normally not a defence to criminal charges, but it is a defence for a person charged if it prevented them from knowing their act was wrong or what they were doing, where (a) the intoxication was caused without their consent by another's malicious or negligent act, or (b) they were by reason of intoxication insane at the time.

Persons under eight are not criminally responsible; persons under twelve are not criminally responsible except if they had capacity to know their act was wrong; male persons under twelve are presumed incapable of carnal knowledge.

A judicial officer is exempt from criminal responsibility for acts or omissions done in the exercise of judicial functions, except where this Code expressly provides otherwise.

A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if the offence is by multiple offenders and the person was compelled throughout by immediate threats of death or grievous bodily harm from the other offender(s); threats of future injury or threats to cause death are not an excuse.

Whether criminal responsibility for using force in defence of a person or property applies is to be determined according to English Common Law principles, subject to any express provisions in this Code or other Kenyan law.

When assessing whether force used in effecting an arrest was necessary or reasonable, the court must take into account the seriousness of the offence and the circumstances of its commission.

A wife may rely on proof that an offence was committed in her husband's presence and under his coercion as a defence, except for treason or murder.

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for an act or omission that would otherwise be an offence, except where knowledge of the law is expressly an element of the offence.

A person is exempt from criminal responsibility for property offences if they acted under an honest claim of right and lacked intent to defraud.

A person is not criminally responsible for acts or events that occur independently of their will or by accident, subject to express provisions about negligent acts and omissions.

Section 20 defines who is deemed to have taken part in committing an offence: anyone who does the act or omission, enables or aids another, aids or abets, or counsels or procures another; convictions for counselling or procuring carry the same consequences as committing the offence; procuring another can make the procurer guilty and liable to the same punishment.

If two or more people form a common intention to carry out an unlawful purpose and, in doing so, an offence that was a probable consequence of that purpose is committed, each of them is treated as having committed that offence.

If a person counsels another to commit an offence and an offence is actually committed as a probable consequence of that counsel, the counsellor is treated as having counselled the offence actually committed.

If an offence is committed by a company, every person in control or management of that company is to be treated as guilty and liable to punishment unless they can prove lack of awareness or that they took all reasonable steps to prevent it.

Section 24: Different kinds of punishments

If a convicted person was under 18 when the offence was committed, the court shall not record death but shall sentence that person to be detained during the President’s pleasure; the presiding judge must forward trial evidence and a written report to the President; the President may direct place and conditions of detention.

Section 26 governs sentences of imprisonment, stating that imprisonment (with or without hard labour) is the form of sentence, allows shorter terms where the law permits, permits fines in addition to or instead of imprisonment subject to provisos, and prohibits substituting a fine where a minimum imprisonment is prescribed.

Courts may order non-citizens convicted of offences punishable by up to twelve months' imprisonment to be removed from Kenya (immediately or after sentence); if the offence is punishable by more than twelve months, the court must, if satisfied the person may be removed, recommend removal to the Cabinet Secretary under section 43 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act.

Section 27 has been deleted.

Where a fine is imposed and no written law specifies otherwise, courts may impose fines or imprisonment and may order imprisonment in default of payment or a warrant for levy; terms of imprisonment for non-payment are subject to maximum periods set by a scale, and imprisonment in default ends when the fine is paid or levied.

When a person is convicted of the offences in sections 118 and 119, the court may order forfeiture of property or, if property cannot be forfeited or found, order a sum assessed as its value; any forfeited property or sum shall be dealt with as the Attorney‑General may direct.

A court that convicts a person of certain offences may order that the person be prohibited from carrying on or being involved in the relevant trade or business; failure to comply is an offence punishable by a fine up to two thousand shillings, imprisonment up to six months, or both.

A person convicted of an offence may be ordered to pay compensation to anyone injured by that offence; that compensation may be added to or substitute other punishment.

A court may order a person convicted of an offence to pay the costs (or part) of the prosecution, subject to the limitations in section 171 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75).

A person convicted of an offence not punishable with death may be ordered by the court to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace and be of good behaviour; the court may imprison the person until the recognizance is entered, but imprisonment for failure to enter must not exceed one year or the longest term he could be sentenced to without fine.

If the convicting court is satisfied a person breached recognizance conditions it may issue a warrant; an apprehended offender must be brought before that court, which may remand, admit to bail with sufficient surety, and may pass sentence after hearing.

Courts may discharge convicted persons absolutely or conditionally (up to 12 months); before conditional discharge the court must explain that a subsequent offence within the period can lead to sentencing for the original offence; the court may order payment of prosecution costs and compensation.

If no punishment is provided for a misdemeanour, it is punishable by up to two years' imprisonment, a fine, or both.

When a person convicted of one offence is convicted of another before sentence on the first is passed or before that sentence expires, the later sentence (other than death) is to be executed after the earlier sentence expires unless the court directs concurrent execution; however, the court may not direct concurrent execution for a sentence of imprisonment in default of payment of a fine.

A sentence of death, or a fine, on an escaped convict shall take effect immediately, subject to the provisions of this Code.

Courts that convict a person of an offence connected with driving may suspend or cancel that person's certificate of competency, endorse particulars on the certificate and send copies to the Inspector-General of Police; convicted persons must produce certificates for endorsement when directed, and failure to produce is a misdemeanour with specified fine or imprisonment; suspended certificates are of no effect during suspension; disqualified persons may appeal to the High Court within fourteen days and the court may suspend operation pending appeal; applying for or obtaining a certificate while disqualified, or obtaining one without disclosing an endorsement, is an offence with specified fine or imprisonment.

Section 70 has been deleted.

Section 71.[Deleted by ActNo. 4 of 1968, s. 54.]

Section 72 deleted.

Section 73 has been deleted.

Section 74 has been deleted.

Section 75 has been deleted (deleted by Act No. 4 of 1968, s. 54).

Section 76 is deleted.

Any person who does, attempts, prepares or conspires to do any act, or utters words, with a subversive intention is guilty of an offence liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

Defines when an assembly of three or more people is an unlawful assembly and when an unlawful assembly becomes a riot.

Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

Taking part in a riot is a misdemeanour.

Specified officers may proclaim that twelve or more riotously assembled persons must disperse peaceably.

When, after a proclamation and waiting a reasonable time (or if the proclamation was prevented by force), twelve or more riotously assembled persons remain together, persons authorized to proclaim, police officers, or those aiding them may disperse and apprehend the rioters, may use reasonably necessary force against resistance, and are not liable in criminal or civil proceedings for harm or death caused by that force.

After a dispersal proclamation, any person who at or after a reasonable time continues to take part in the riot or assembly is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for life.

Any person who forcefully prevents or obstructs the making of the proclamation mentioned in section 81 is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for life; also, anyone who, knowing the prevention occurred, takes or continues part in the riot or assembly is liable to imprisonment for life.

Persons riotously assembled who unlawfully pull down or begin to pull down or destroy any building, railway, machinery or structures commit a felony and each is liable to imprisonment for life.

Persons riotously assembled who unlawfully damage items mentioned in section 85 commit a felony and are liable to imprisonment for seven years.

All persons who, while riotously assembled, unlawfully and with force prevent or obstruct loading/unloading, movement or navigation of railways, vehicles or vessels, or board them with intent, commit a misdemeanor.

Any person must not go armed in public without lawful occasion in a way that causes terror to any person.

Carrying or possessing firearms, offensive weapons, ammunition, incendiary material or explosives in circumstances suggesting intended or recent prejudicial use is an offence punishable by imprisonment; consorting with such persons is also an offence.

Any person who violently enters land to take possession is guilty of the misdemeanour of forcible entry, except where they enter their own lands that are in the custody of their servant or bailiff.

A person in actual possession of land without colour of right who holds it in a way likely to cause or cause apprehension of a breach of the peace against the person entitled to possession is guilty of the misdemeanour called forcible detainer.

Any person who takes part in a fight in a public place is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for one year.

Anyone who challenges or provokes another to fight a duel commits a misdemeanour.

Anyone who in a public place or at a public gathering uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or likely to occasion one, commits an offence liable to a fine up to five thousand shillings or imprisonment up to six months or both.

Section 95 prohibits any person from using obscene, abusive or insulting language to an employer or person in authority, brawling or otherwise creating a disturbance likely to cause a breach of the peace; and prohibits threatening to break or injure a dwelling-house or discharging a loaded firearm with intent to alarm persons in a dwelling-house.

Section title addresses "Incitement to violence and disobedience of the law."

Persons who gather in groups of two or more to unship, carry or conceal goods subject to customs duty and liable to forfeiture commit a misdemeanour and each may be fined up to six thousand shillings or imprisoned for six months.

The Cabinet Secretary may designate a boycott and specify actions that further it; anyone who publicly advises or publishes inducements to take those specified boycott actions with intent to further the boycott commits an offence punishable by up to six months' imprisonment; lawful trade dispute actions are exempt.

Section 41 has been deleted.

Section states: "Section becomes an accessory after the fact to treason; or"

A person who does not owe allegiance to the Republic and who, in Kenya or elsewhere, commits acts that would be treason if done by someone owing allegiance, is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for life.

It is an offence for any person, with intent to help the enemy, to perform acts designed or likely to assist the enemy, interfere with public order or the government, impede disciplined forces, or endanger life; such a person is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for life.

Any person, without lawful authority, must not carry on, prepare for, assist with or advise warlike undertakings in Kenya; the offence is a felony punishable by life imprisonment.

A person cannot be tried for treason or the specified felonies unless the prosecution is commenced within two years after the offence is committed.

Permits comments or criticisms of the policy of the Government in relation to such forces when made in good faith.

Makes it an offence to seduce any member of the disciplined forces or any police officer from his duty or allegiance.

Prohibits aiding, abetting, or being accessory to mutiny, and inciting sedition or disobedience.

Defines "inducing desertion" as procuring or persuading, or attempting to procure or persuade, to desert.

It is a felony to knowingly and advisedly help an alien enemy who is a prisoner of war in Kenya to escape; the offender is liable to imprisonment for life.

When an overt act manifesting intent is an element of an offence, acts of conspiring or acts done in furtherance by conspirators are treated as overt acts manifesting that intention.

The Cabinet Secretary may prohibit or declare publications prohibited (including importation) on reasonable grounds related to order, health, morals, security or defence; a Review Board is established to advise the Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary must act on its advice.

It is an offence for any person (other than in the course of public duties) to print, import, publish, sell, supply, distribute, reproduce or possess any prohibited publication; guilty persons face imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, except where they promptly deliver copies to an administrative officer or police under the stated provisos.

Authorized officers may seize, detain, forfeit and order disposal of prohibited publications found in specified circumstances.

Section 55 has been deleted.

Section 56 has been deleted.

Deleted by ActNo. 10 of 1997, Sch.

Section 58 has been deleted.

Prohibits being present at or consenting to the administering of any oath that purports to bind a person to commit an offence punishable with death.

Administering an oath that binds someone to commit an offence punishable by death is a felony and is punished by death.

Makes unlawful oaths to commit other offences and unlawful oaths to engage in mutinous or seditious enterprises.

It is a felony to compel another person by force, threat or intimidation to take an oath (liable to 10 years' imprisonment); consenting to such administration is a felony (liable to 7 years' imprisonment).

A person who takes an oath mentioned in sections 59 or 61 must report what they know to the police (or, if in disciplined service, to the police or their commanding officer) within five days, or within five days after force or sickness prevents them, otherwise they cannot use compulsion as a defence.

A person present when an oath (as described in sections 59, 61 or 62) is administered must report what they know to the police or (if in disciplined service) to their commanding officer within five days, or later if prevented by physical force or sickness until five days after that ends, to avoid being deemed to have consented.

Anyone who trains or drills others in the use of arms or attends such training or drilling without the Cabinet Secretary's permission commits an offence and may be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Publishing false statements, rumours or reports that are likely to cause public fear or disturb the peace is a misdemeanour; a defence is available if the accused reasonably verified the accuracy before publishing.

Prohibits publishing or broadcasting material that causes public alarm or undermines investigations; offenders face fines up to five million shillings or up to three years' imprisonment or both.

Any person who publishes material degrading or reviling a foreign prince, potentate, ambassador or other foreign dignitary with intent to disturb peace and friendship between Kenya and that person's country is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Section 68 prohibits, without written authority of the President, preparing or fitting out hostile expeditions, accepting or inducing acceptance of foreign military commissions, leaving to join foreign armed forces, taking illegally enlisted persons aboard vessels, and building or delivering vessels or commissions intended for foreign belligerent service.

Section 69 has been deleted by Act No. 4 of 2009, s. 454.

Public servants who knowingly make materially false returns or statements required for payments or deliveries commit a felony.

It is a felony for any person employed in the public service who, abusing the authority of their office, does or directs any arbitrary act prejudicial to another's rights.

Persons authorized or required by law to give certificates must not give a certificate that they know is false in any material particular; doing so is a felony.

A person convicted of an offence under sections 99–102 of this Part is liable to a fine not exceeding one million shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or to both.

Any person who administers an oath or takes a declaration or affidavit about a matter for which they have no legal authority commits a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for one year, with specified exceptions.

If a person not being a judicial officer assumes to act as a judicial officer, that conduct is covered by this provision.

Creates an offence of personating a person employed in the public service when that person is required by virtue of employment to do an act or attend in a place.

It is a misdemeanour for whoever to hold out any threat of injury to a person employed in the public service (or to someone believed to be interested in such a person) to induce or deter them in performing public functions.

Inducing or attempting to induce a public officer, a member of the naval, military or air force, or a servant of a local authority to fail in duty, terminate service, or commit a breach of discipline.

A public servant who has a private interest in certain property or businesses and who carries out official duties concerning that interest is guilty of a felony.

Knowingly giving false testimony in (or to start) a judicial proceeding is perjury; assisting or inducing another to do so is subornation of perjury.

A person lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding must not wilfully make a material statement in the proceeding that they know to be false or do not believe to be true; doing so makes them guilty of perjury.

Any person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

A person is entitled not to be convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury solely on the testimony of a single witness about the falsity of a statement.

Making materially contradictory sworn statements with intent to deceive is an offence punishable by up to two years' imprisonment; a court may convict on proof both statements were made and intent to deceive without proving falsity, and compelled answers do not prevent conviction.

It is prohibited for any person, with intent to cause harm or inconvenience to another, to knowingly give false information or complaints about that person to magistrates, police, or officers with power to apprehend.

Fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury

Anyone who swears falsely or makes a false affirmation or declaration in circumstances comparable to perjury is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Anyone who practices fraud or knowingly presents false statements or writings to a person called as a witness in a judicial proceeding with intent to affect their testimony commits a misdemeanour.

Anyone who, knowing an item may be required as evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully removes, destroys, or renders it unreadable with intent to prevent its use is guilty of a misdemeanour.

It is an offence to conspire with another person to falsely accuse someone of a crime or to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice.

Anyone who accepts or agrees to accept property or benefit in exchange for compounding, concealing, delaying prosecution of, or withholding evidence about a felony is guilty of a misdemeanour.

It is an offence for a person to compound an action brought under a penal law without the court's order or consent.

Addresses advertisements offering rewards for stolen or lost property that state "no questions will be asked" or that the person producing the property "will not be seized or molested."

Any person who commits the acts listed in Section 121(1)(a)–(i) relating to disrespect, obstruction, interference with witnesses, wrongful possession, publication of private evidence or similar acts in relation to judicial proceedings is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for three years.

Using force to rescue someone from lawful custody is an offence; penalties depend on the custody status of the person rescued.

A police officer of or above inspector rank may, by written order, require a person suspected of a serious offence to undergo a DNA sampling procedure where there are reasonable grounds that it might produce evidential confirmation or refutation.

When a suspect who is subject to an order under section 122A resists compliance, members of the police force supervised by an officer of or above inspector may use reasonable force to restrain the suspect to effect the procedure.

A suspect may undergo a procedure by consent without an order being made; every such consent must be recorded in writing signed by the person giving the consent.

Results of DNA tests from a sample under section 122A shall not be admissible in evidence at the prosecution's request unless an order under section 122A or a consent under section 122C is first proven.

Anyone in lawful custody who escapes from that custody is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Creates an offence of aiding or attempting to aid a prisoner to escape from lawful custody.

Anyone who knowingly and with intent to obstruct a court attachment receives, removes, retains, conceals or disposes of property lawfully seized commits a felony and faces three years' imprisonment.

Any person who wilfully obstructs or resists a person lawfully executing a court order or warrant is guilty of a misdemeanour and may be imprisoned for one year.

Persons employed in the public service who, while performing their duties, commit fraud or breach of trust affecting the public are guilty of a felony.

Public servants must not wilfully neglect duties they are legally bound to perform; such neglect (if not involving excessive danger) is a misdemeanour.

Public officers must not aid or facilitate the commission of a felony.

Addresses giving false information to a person employed in the public service.

Everyone who wilfully disobeys any written law affecting the public is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for two years unless the written law provides another penalty.

It is a misdemeanour for anyone to disobey an order, warrant or command lawfully issued by a court, officer or other duly authorized public person; unless another penalty or proceeding is prescribed, the person is liable to imprisonment for two years.

Any person who, without lawful excuse, utters, prints, publishes words or does acts calculated to bring into contempt of, or to excite defiance of or disobedience to, the lawful authority of a public officer or any class of public officers commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years; the burden of proof for lawful excuse lies on the person.

Anyone 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 liable to specified penalties; instigating others to do so is a separate offence with a longer maximum term of imprisonment.

Any person who destroys, damages or defiles a place of worship or sacred object with intent to insult a religion, or knowing others are likely to view it as such, commits a misdemeanour.

Anyone who voluntarily disturbs a lawful religious assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Prohibits a person from trespassing on places of worship or burial, offering indignity to a corpse, or disturbing funeral assemblies when done with intent or knowledge to wound feelings or insult religion; such conduct is a misdemeanour.

Prohibits unlawfully hindering or improperly handling a dead body and creates a duty to bury; offenders are guilty of a misdemeanour.

Anyone who deliberately intends to wound another person's religious feelings by writing, uttering, making sounds, gestures, or placing objects in their sight commits a misdemeanour and may be imprisoned for one year.

Any person who conspires with another to commit a felony (including acts abroad that would be felony in Kenya and are offences where proposed) is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years or a lesser punishment if applicable.

Any person who conspires with another to commit a misdemeanour (including acts abroad that would be misdemeanours in Kenya and are offences where proposed) is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Makes conspiracies to prevent or defeat the execution or enforcement of any written law an offence.

Defines "accessory after the fact" and states that a wife or a husband does not become an accessory after the fact by assisting their spouse to escape punishment.

Anyone who becomes an accessory after the fact to a felony is guilty of a felony and, if no other punishment is provided, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

Becoming an accessory after the fact to a misdemeanour makes a person guilty of a misdemeanour.

Section 139 has been deleted.

Section 140 deleted by ActNo. 3 of 2006, 2nd Sch.

Section 141 has been deleted.

Section 142 has been deleted.

Section 143 was deleted by ActNo. 3 of 2006, 2nd Sch.

Section 144 has been deleted.

Section 145 has been deleted.

Anyone who, knowing a person is suffering from mental illness, has or attempts unlawful carnal connection with them (not amounting to rape) commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years.

Section 147 has been deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, 2nd Schedule.

Section 148 has been deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006 (2nd Schedule).

Section 149 has been deleted.

Section 150 has been deleted by ActNo. 5 of 2003, s. 24.

Any person must not detain another person against their will in premises intending an unlawful sexual connection or in a brothel.

Magistrates may issue warrants to search for and recover persons unlawfully detained when informed on oath by parents, guardians, relatives or other bona fide informants; authorised persons may enter premises and remove such persons.

It prohibits every male person from knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution and from persistently soliciting or importuning for immoral purposes in public.

Every woman who knowingly lives on the earnings of prostitution, or who for gain controls or influences a prostitute's movements so as to aid, abet or compel her prostitution, is guilty of a felony.

A magistrate may, on sworn information showing reason to suspect a house is used for prostitution and that someone is living on the prostitute's earnings or controlling her, issue a warrant authorizing police to enter, search and arrest.

Makes keeping, managing or assisting in the management of a brothel an offense.

Making or conspiring to make another person permit unlawful sexual intercourse by false pretence is a felony punishable by three years' imprisonment.

Any person who, with intent to procure a woman’s miscarriage, unlawfully administers a poison, causes her to take a noxious thing, or uses force or other means to procure abortion is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

A woman who, while pregnant and intending to cause her own miscarriage, unlawfully causes or permits substances, force, or other means to be used is guilty of a felony and can be imprisoned for seven years.

Anyone who unlawfully supplies or procures anything knowing it will be used to procure a miscarriage is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for three years.

Section 161 has been deleted.

Makes carnal knowledge of any person "against the order of nature" an unnatural offence.

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 164 deleted by ActNo. 3 of 2006, 2nd Sch.

Creates a criminal offence for any male person to commit, procure, or attempt to procure acts of gross indecency with another male person, whether in public or private; punishable by up to five years' imprisonment.

The section has been deleted.

Section 167 has been deleted.

Section 168 has been deleted.

Section 169 has been deleted.

Section 170 has been deleted by Act No. 7 of 2007, Sch.

Makes it a felony for a person with a living spouse to knowingly marry again while that spouse is alive; penalty is imprisonment for five years, with specific exceptions for voided marriages and long absence (seven years).

It is a crime for any person who, dishonestly or with fraudulent intent, goes through a marriage ceremony knowing they are not lawfully married; the person is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for five years.

Persons legally liable as masters or mistresses must provide necessary food, clothing and lodging for their apprentices or servants; wilful failure or causing serious bodily harm is a misdemeanour.

It is an offence for any person to take, entice away, detain, receive or harbour a child under fourteen with intent to deprive the child's lawful custodian of possession; a good-faith claim to possession or parentage for an illegitimate child is a defence.

Any person who does an act not authorized by law or omits to discharge a legal duty and thereby causes common injury, danger, annoyance, or obstructs or causes inconvenience to the public commits the misdemeanour called common nuisance and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

Section 176 has been deleted.

Section 177 deleted by ActNo. 9 of 1966, s. 71.

This section has been deleted.

Section 179 was deleted by Act No. 9 of 1966, s. 71.

Section 180 has been deleted.

Section 181 makes it an offence for any person to make, possess, distribute, import, export, exhibit, deal in, advertise, or otherwise traffic in obscene materials or to publicly exhibit indecent performances; a court may order destruction of such materials and may do so on application by specified authorities.

Applies to every common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in any public place.

The provision (Section 183) has been deleted.

It is a criminal offence for persons not serving in the armed forces or police (unless lawfully present in Kenya and with permission) to wear, import, sell, or possess for sale uniforms or dress resembling military/regimental uniforms without the Cabinet Secretary's permission; specified exceptions and penalties apply.