Penal Code

The Cabinet Secretary can declare certain uniforms and distinctive marks to be for exclusive use; using, wearing, importing, selling or possessing them for sale without authority is a misdemeanour with specified penalties, subject to specified performance exceptions and possible forfeiture unless the Cabinet Secretary orders otherwise.

Any person who unlawfully or negligently does an act likely to spread a disease dangerous to life commits a misdemeanour.

Section 187 has been deleted.

Section 188 has been deleted.

Section 189 has been deleted.

Section 190 has been deleted.

It is an offence for any person to voluntarily corrupt or foul the water of any public spring or reservoir, rendering it less fit for ordinary use.

Anyone who voluntarily pollutes the air so that it becomes harmful to people's health in the area or to those passing by is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Any person who, for trade or otherwise, makes loud noises or offensive or unwholesome smells in places and circumstances that annoy many people in the exercise of their common rights commits an offence and may be punished as for a common nuisance.

Defines libel: a person who, by print, writing, painting, effigy or other non‑oral means, unlawfully publishes defamatory matter about another with intent to defame is guilty of the misdemeanour called libel.

Defines "defamatory matter" as matter likely to injure a person's reputation by exposing them to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or likely to damage them in their profession or trade; it is immaterial whether the person is living or dead.

Defines when a person is considered to have published a libel: when they cause printed, written, painted, effigy or other conveyed defamatory matter to be exhibited, read, recited, described, delivered or otherwise dealt with so that its defamatory meaning is or is likely to become known to the person defamed or any other person.

Defines "unlawful publication" to include where "the matter is true" and it "was for the public benefit that it should be published"

The publication of defamatory matter is absolutely privileged in specified cases, and no person shall be liable to punishment under this Code in respect thereof in those cases.

Publication is conditionally privileged when it is a fair report of anything said, done or shown in a civil or criminal inquiry or proceeding before any court; but if the court prohibits publication of anything said or shown before it on grounds that it is seditious, immoral or blasphemous, that publication is not privileged.

Explains good faith where a matter was untrue and the person did not believe it to be true.

Section 201 has been deleted.

Causing another person's death by an unlawful act or omission is the offence of manslaughter.

Anyone who, with malice aforethought, causes another person's death by an unlawful act or omission is guilty of murder.

Any person convicted of murder shall be sentenced to death.

Anyone who commits the felony of manslaughter is liable to imprisonment for life.

Defines "Malice aforethought" as an intention to cause the death of or to do grievous harm to any person, whether that person is the person actually killed or not.

When a person unlawfully kills another in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation and before their passion cools, they are guilty only of manslaughter.

Defines "provocation" as a wrongful act or insult likely to deprive an ordinary person of self-control and induce an assault, and lists exceptions.

Persons who kill (or are party to killing) under a suicide pact are to be treated as having committed manslaughter rather than murder; the defence must prove the existence of a suicide pact; 'suicide pact' is defined.

If a woman wilfully causes the death of her child under twelve months while her mind was disturbed after childbirth or due to lactation, she is guilty of the felony of infanticide and may be punished as for manslaughter.

If a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is found to be pregnant, she is to be sentenced to imprisonment for life instead of death.

Before passing sentence on a woman convicted of a capital offence who alleges pregnancy (or when the court so orders), the trial judge must determine whether she is pregnant; the judge decides based on evidence and will find she is not pregnant unless pregnancy is proved; if the judge finds she is not pregnant the woman may appeal and the Court of Appeal, if satisfied the finding should be set aside, must quash the sentence and pass a sentence of life imprisonment; if the trial judge cannot sit another High Court judge shall determine the question.

Defines 'causing death' as inflicting bodily injury that leads to surgical or medical treatment which causes death, and states that it is immaterial whether the treatment was proper or mistaken if it was employed in good faith and with common knowledge and skill, but excludes liability where the treatment that was the immediate cause of death was not employed in good faith or lacked common knowledge or skill.

A child is treated as a person capable of being killed once it has completely proceeded in a living state from its mother's body, regardless of breathing, independent circulation, or whether the navel-string is severed.

A person is not treated as having killed another if the death does not occur within a year and a day of the cause of death.

A person in charge of another who cannot care for themselves must provide that person with the necessaries of life.

Masters or mistresses who have contracted to provide necessary food, clothing or lodging for a servant or apprentice under sixteen must provide them, and failing to do so may lead to being deemed to have caused consequences adversely affecting the servant's life or health.

Persons who undertake surgical or medical treatment, or any lawful act that may be dangerous to life or health, must have reasonable skill and use reasonable care, except in cases of necessity.

Every person in charge of things that could endanger life, safety or health must use reasonable care and take reasonable precautions to avoid the danger.

Defines attempt to murder as attempting unlawfully to cause the death of another.

A person serving a sentence of three years or more who attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for life.

Anyone who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder commits a felony and can be sentenced to life imprisonment.

It is a felony for any person, without lawful excuse, to utter or cause another to receive a threat to kill; the offence carries up to ten years' imprisonment.

Any person who conspires with another to kill any person (in Kenya or elsewhere) commits a felony and is liable to 14 years' imprisonment.

Aiding suicide

Attempting to kill oneself is a misdemeanour.

Anyone who secretly disposes of a newborn's body to conceal the birth commits a misdemeanour.

Anyone who prevents a child from being born alive when a woman is about to deliver, by acts or omissions that would amount to unlawful killing if the child had been born and died, is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for life.

Anyone who, by choking, suffocating or strangling another so as to make them incapable of resistance, with intent to commit or facilitate a felony or misdemeanour (or to facilitate an offender's flight), commits a felony punishable by life imprisonment.

Anyone who, intending to commit or facilitate a felony or misdemeanour (or to help an offender flee), administers or attempts to administer a stupefying or overpowering drug or thing to another person is guilty of a felony and liable to life imprisonment.

Makes it unlawful to wound or do any grievous harm to any person by any means.

Prohibits preventing or obstructing any person on board of, or escaping from, a vessel in distress or wrecked, in their endeavours to save their life.

Makes it an offence to place anything on the railway that intentionally endangers the safety of persons travelling by railway.

Unlawfully causing grievous harm to another is a felony punishable by life imprisonment.

Anyone who unlawfully and intending to harm places an explosive substance anywhere commits a felony and is liable to 14 years' imprisonment.

It is an offence for any person to unlawfully and with intent to injure or annoy cause poison or a noxious thing to be administered to (or taken by) another, endangering life or causing grievous harm; liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

Creates an offense concerning unlawful wounding or poisoning.

Any person who intimidates or molests another person commits an offence punishable by up to three years' imprisonment; the provision defines "intimidates" and "molests", and subsection (3)'s rules exclude lawful peaceful picketing under trade-union law.

A person charged with the duty to provide another with the necessaries of life must not, without lawful excuse, fail to supply them when such failure endangers life or is likely to cause permanent injury; such failure is a felony.

A person is not criminally responsible for performing, in good faith and with reasonable care and skill, a surgical operation for another's benefit or upon an unborn child to preserve the mother's life, when the operation is reasonable in all the circumstances.

Persons authorized to use force are criminally responsible for any excess of force.

Consent to the causing of one’s own death or maim does not affect the criminal responsibility of the person who caused it.

It prohibits any person from supplying or offering to a child certain harmful substances (petroleum distillates, glue or other stupefying or hallucinogenic substances, or substances declared by the Cabinet Secretary responsible for health).

'drives any vehicle or rides on any public way; or'

Any person who unlawfully does an act or omits a duty‑bound act (other than those in section 243) that causes harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to six months' imprisonment.

Making, possessing or handling poisonous substances in a rash or negligent way that endangers life or is likely to cause hurt is a misdemeanour punishable by up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of seven thousand shillings.

Anyone who, by an unlawful act or omission (not listed in section 233), causes the safety of a person travelling by railway to be endangered is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Any person must not exhibit any false light, mark or buoy if they intend or know it is likely to mislead a navigator; doing so is punishable by up to seven years' imprisonment.

Anyone who knowingly or negligently carries or causes to be carried for hire a person by water in a vessel that is unsafe or overloaded commits a misdemeanour.

Any person who causes danger, obstruction or injury in a public way or public line of navigation is liable to a fine.

Unlawful assault by any person is a misdemeanour punishable by up to one year imprisonment unless a greater punishment applies.

Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for five years.

It is prohibited for a person to intentionally insult another’s modesty by forcibly stripping them; doing so is an offence.

Any person who assaults, strikes or wounds a magistrate, officer or other lawfully authorized person executing duties to preserve wrecked or distressed vessels or goods commits a misdemeanour and may be imprisoned for seven years.

Creates an offence of assaulting a person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or prevent lawful apprehension or detainer.

Section 303 defines 'breaking' as breaking parts of a building or opening closures (doors, windows, shutters, cellar flaps, or similar) by any means; it defines 'enter' as when any part of a person's body or an instrument used by them is within the building; it also deems entering by threat, artifice, collusion, or through an aperture not ordinarily intended for entry to constitute breaking and entering.

Any person who breaks and enters a building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony (or who, having entered or having committed a felony therein, breaks out) is guilty of housebreaking and liable to seven years' imprisonment; if the offence is committed at night it is termed burglary and the offender is liable to ten years' imprisonment.

Entering or being in a dwelling with intent to commit a felony is a felony punishable by up to five years' imprisonment; if committed at night the penalty is up to seven years.

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 to a dwelling-house and occupied with it but is not part of it, or any building used as a place of worship, and commits a felony therein

Any person who breaks and enters specified buildings with intent to commit a felony is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for five years.

It is a felony for a person to be found armed with intent to commit a felony, to carry articles for use in burglary/theft/cheating when away from home, or to be disguised or hiding in buildings with intent to commit a felony; penalties include lengthy imprisonment.

Section 309 has been repealed by Act No. 48 of 1962, s. 13(1).

When a person is convicted under this Chapter, the court may order that any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument of housebreaking carried or used in connection with the offence be forfeited.

Damaging or unlawfully removing an aircraft, vessel or vehicle detained under section 26 is a misdemeanour; aircraft, vessel or vehicle used to facilitate certain offences may be forfeited and forfeitable items are to be dealt with under section 389A.

Anyone who takes a person out of Kenya without that person's (or a legally authorized person's) consent is said to kidnap that person from Kenya.

Taking or enticing a minor (male under 14, female under 16) or a person of unsound mind out of the keeping of their lawful guardian without the guardian's consent is defined as kidnapping from lawful guardianship.

Defines abduction as compelling or inducing a person to go from any place by force or deceit.

Any person who kidnaps another person from Kenya or from lawful guardianship commits a felony and faces up to seven years' imprisonment.

Any person who kidnaps or abducts someone in order that they may be murdered or put in danger of being murdered commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

Prohibits kidnapping or abducting a person with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine them; offence punishable by imprisonment for seven years.

Makes kidnapping or abducting a person to cause grievous harm, dispose of them to such danger, or when knowing this to be likely, a felony punishable by imprisonment for ten years.

Anyone who, knowing a person has been kidnapped or abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines that person is guilty of a felony and will be punished as if they had committed the kidnapping or abduction.

It is a felony to kidnap or abduct a child under fourteen with intent to steal from the child; the offender is liable to seven years' imprisonment.

Anyone who wrongfully confines another person commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of fourteen thousand shillings.

Section 264 deleted by ActNo. 8 of 2010, 2nd Sch.

Section 265 has been deleted.

Anyone who unlawfully forces another person to work against their will commits a misdemeanour.

If an offence under this Part appears to have been committed for the purpose of exploitation, the person committing it shall be charged with the appropriate offence under the Counter Trafficking in Persons Act.

Section 267 lists categories of things that are "capable of being stolen," including movable inanimate things, certain inanimate things when made movable, tame animals, particular wild animals in confinement or pursued after escape, products of animals, and information.

Stealing is taking or converting another's property fraudulently and without a claim of right.

Two special-case exemptions: (1) a factor or agent who pledges or gives a lien on entrusted goods or their title (within certain monetary limits and including amounts of bills or promissory notes accepted or made for the principal) is not guilty of theft for that dealing; (2) a servant who, against orders, takes food from the master's possession to give to the master's animal is not guilty of theft for that taking.

Money or proceeds received under a direction are treated as the property of the person who supplied the money, security or power of attorney until the direction is complied with.

Proceeds and things received in exchange are treated as the property of the person who supplied the original property until disposed according to the sale terms, except where the terms treat proceeds as a debtor-creditor account.

If a person receives money on behalf of another, that money is treated as the property of the person on whose behalf it was received, unless it was received as part of a debtor-creditor account relationship.

If any person takes or converts something capable of being stolen under circumstances amounting to theft, it does not matter that they have a special property or interest in it, are owner subject to another's interest, are a lessee, are a joint owner, or are a director or officer of a corporate owner.

A person who causes a spouse to deal with property of the other spouse in a way that would be theft if they were not married is deemed to have stolen it and may be charged with theft.

Anyone who steals anything capable of being stolen commits the offence of theft and is liable to imprisonment for three years, unless a different punishment applies because of the circumstances or nature of the thing stolen.

If a testamentary instrument is stolen, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

Stealing postal matter (or chattel, money or valuable security contained in postal matter) makes the offender liable to imprisonment for ten years.

Stealing specified stock (certain livestock or their young) makes the offender liable to imprisonment for up to fourteen years.

If the stolen thing is a motor vehicle, the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

If the thing stolen is fishing gear (as defined in the Fisheries Management and Development Act (Cap. 378)), the offender is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Stealing from the person; stealing goods in transit, etc.

A person employed in the public service who steals Government property (or property obtained through their employment) is liable to seven years' imprisonment.

If the offender is a clerk or servant and the stolen thing is employer's property or came into the offender's possession on account of the employer, the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Directors or officers who steal company property face up to seven years' imprisonment.

Agents (offenders) must not steal property received by them under a power of attorney for its disposition.

If a tenant or lodger steals a fixture or chattel let to them for use with the house or lodging and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

An offender who, before committing theft, had previously been convicted of a theft under sections 275 to 284 is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or removes from its place of deposit a register (or copy) required by law for recording titles or vital events is guilty of a felony and liable to ten years' imprisonment.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, must not do so; the offender is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals in whole or in part any document evidencing title to land or an estate in land commits a felony and may be imprisoned for three years.

Anyone who kills an animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass (or part of them) commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as for stealing the animal.

Anyone who makes something movable with the intent to steal it commits an offence and faces the same punishment as if they had stolen it after it became movable.

A mortgagor who removes or disposes of mortgaged goods without the mortgagee's consent and with intent to defraud commits a misdemeanour.

Anyone who takes, conceals or disposes of ore, metal or mineral in or about a mine with intent to defraud is committing a felony and may be imprisoned for five years.

It is an offence for any person to fraudulently abstract or divert another person's mechanical, illuminating or electrical power for their own or someone else's use; the offence is a felony punishable by imprisonment for five years.

Prohibits any person from unlawfully taking or converting draught or riding animals, vehicles, cycles or vessels for personal or another's use; the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by up to six months imprisonment or a fine of three thousand shillings, or both.

Robbery is when a person steals something and uses or threatens actual violence to obtain or keep it or to prevent resistance.

Anyone who commits robbery is liable to 14 years' imprisonment; if the offender is armed, in company, or uses or inflicts personal violence at or around the time of the robbery, the offender shall be sentenced to death.

Defines attempted robbery: a person who assaults another with intent to steal and uses or threatens violence is guilty of a felony punishable by seven years' imprisonment; aggravated circumstances can attract the death penalty.

Anyone who assaults another person intending to steal anything commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Any person who, intending to extort or gain and knowing the contents, sends a writing demanding something with threats and without reasonable cause is guilty of a felony punishable by up to fourteen years' imprisonment.

Anyone who, with intent to extort or gain, accuses or threatens to accuse, threatens another will be accused, or causes a writing containing such accusation or threat to be received is guilty; punishable by up to 14 years in specified serious cases and 3 years in other cases.

Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats

Demanding another person's valuable property with menaces or force, with intent to steal, is a felony punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment.

Defines "false pretence" as any representation of fact, by words, writing or conduct, about past or present facts that is false and known or believed by the maker to be false.

A person who, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtains or induces delivery of anything capable of being stolen is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for three years.

Anyone who, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, induces another to execute, alter or otherwise deal with a valuable security is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for three years.

Cheating: any person who, by a fraudulent trick or device, obtains or induces delivery of property or money to a greater extent than would have been given, is guilty of a misdemeanour punishable by up to three years' imprisonment.

A person obtains credit by false pretence or by other fraud when incurring a debt or liability.

It is a misdemeanour for any person to draw or issue a cheque when the account lacks funds, has been closed, or has been instructed not to honour the cheque; assisting by fraud is also a misdemeanour; penalty: fine up to fifty thousand shillings or up to one year imprisonment, or both.

Banks or other institutions commit felonies by (a) holding unsettled cheques to conceal their financial position, (b) assisting others to obtain money or credit based on such cheques, or (c) facilitating transfers to holders of false cheques; conviction carries a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand shillings.

It is a misdemeanour for any person to conspire by deceit or fraud to affect market prices, defraud the public or extort property; the offence carries up to three years' imprisonment.

Concealing from the purchaser or mortgagee any instrument material to the title, or any encumbrance, is addressed by this section.

Makes it an offence for any person who, for gain or reward, undertakes to tell fortunes or pretends by occult skill to locate stolen or lost items.

It is a misdemeanour punishable by up to one year imprisonment for any person who wilfully obtains or attempts to obtain any registration, licence or certificate under any law by false pretence.

It is an offence for any person to knowingly make an untrue statement to procure a passport.

It is an offence for a person, knowing or having reason to believe goods are stolen, to dishonestly receive, retain, assist in, arrange for their retention, removal, disposal or realization (not in the course of stealing); such handling is a felony punishable by up to fourteen years' imprisonment with hard labour.

A person detained and charged with possession or conveyance of something reasonably suspected to be stolen who does not satisfactorily explain how they obtained it is guilty of a misdemeanour.

The Cabinet Secretary may issue Gazette notices directing marks to be applied to government and specified authority stores; persons found possessing marked stores suspected to be stolen who cannot satisfy the court are guilty of a misdemeanour, and similarly for stores of the disciplined forces.

Courts may summon and examine persons connected to possession of certain things; persons required to account may be guilty of an offence if they fail to give a satisfactory account within a reasonable time and face a fine up to 1,400 shillings or imprisonment up to six months.

Anyone who, without lawful excuse and knowing or having reason to believe property was stolen or obtained under culpable circumstances, receives or possesses that property outside Kenya is guilty of the corresponding offence and liable to seven years' imprisonment.

A person who, as a trustee, destroys or improperly converts trust property with intent to defraud is guilty of a felony and liable to seven years' imprisonment.

Directors or officers who, as such, receive company property not as payment of a just debt and, intending to defraud, fail to record it properly in the company books may be liable for fraudulent appropriation or accounting.

Officials of companies must not make false statements intended to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder or creditor of the company.

Describes conduct by a "clerk or servant" who destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies employer books, documents, securities or accounts, or is privy to such acts.

A public officer who knowingly supplies false statements or returns about public money or property commits a felony.

Forgery means making a false document with intent to defraud or to deceive.

"Document" is defined to exclude trade marks and other signs used with articles of commerce, even if written, printed, or electronic.

Prohibits making a false document that purports to be something it is not.

The law presumes an intent to defraud exists if, when a false document was made, there was a specific person capable of being defrauded, unless that presumption is rebutted by proof the offender tried (or intended) to prevent the fraud or believed they had a right to the thing sought.

Section 332. Arson Section any building or structure whatever, whether completed or not; or

Attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 332.

Section 334. Setting fire to crops, etc.

Makes it an offence to unlawfully attempt to set fire to, cut down, destroy, or seriously or permanently injure crops or other things mentioned in section 334.

wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether completed or not

Any person who unlawfully attempts to cast away or destroy a vessel, or to cause the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds an animal capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment (14 years for animals referred to in section 278; 3 years otherwise).

Wilfully and unlawfully destroying or damaging property is an offence; basic penalty is imprisonment for five years, with heavier penalties (including life imprisonment) for specified types of property or circumstances.

Unlawfully placing an explosive substance anywhere with intent to destroy or damage property is a felony punishable by up to fourteen years' imprisonment.

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully causes, or attempts to cause, an infectious disease to be communicated to animals capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 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

If the offence (sabotage) is committed with intent to endanger life, or with knowledge that it is likely to endanger life, the offender is liable to imprisonment for life.

Any person must not send or cause to be received letters or writings threatening to burn or destroy property or to kill, maim or wound cattle; the offence is a felony punishable by imprisonment for seven years.

Prohibits any person from falsely representing themselves as another person with intent to defraud; such personation is a misdemeanour and, where done to obtain property by claiming entitlement by will or law, is punishable by up to seven years' imprisonment.

Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, falsely makes in another's name before an authorized court or person an acknowledgment of liability or of a deed/instrument is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Anyone who utters a document issued to another person and falsely represents themselves as the person named in it commits an offence and faces the same punishment as for forging the document.

It is an offence for a person to sell, give or lend a document issued to them so another may pretend to be the person named in it; such conduct is a misdemeanour.

It is an offence for any person to utter a testimonial of character to obtain employment; punishable by up to one year imprisonment.

It is an offence for a person who has been given a document (as mentioned in section 386) to give, sell or lend that document to someone else intending that the other person use it to obtain employment.

Defines 'attempt' as when a person, intending to commit an offence, begins to put that intention into execution by means adapted to its fulfillment and manifests it by an overt act, but does not complete the offence.

Anyone who attempts to commit a felony or misdemeanour is guilty of an offence and, unless another punishment is provided, is liable to half the punishment for the intended offence, except that if the offence attempted is punishable by death or life imprisonment the imprisonment for the attempt must not exceed seven years.

Section 390 has been repealed.

Where the act or omission is proposed to occur outside Kenya, the punishment must not exceed the punishment that would have applied under the laws of the place where the act or omission was proposed.

If someone knows another plans or is committing a felony and fails to use all reasonable means to stop it, they are guilty of a misdemeanour.

Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for three years unless another punishment is provided.

Anyone who forges specified documents is guilty and faces life imprisonment; the court may order the forged document to be forfeited.

Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Creates an offence of forging stamps used for revenue or accounting by any Government department.

It is an offence for any person who knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document.

Anyone who knowingly utters a revoked, cancelled, suspended or otherwise exhausted document or electronic record as if it were still valid commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as for forgery.

Anyone who, by false and fraudulent representations about the nature, contents or operation of a document or electronic record, causes another to sign or execute it commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as for forgery.

Obliterating, adding to, or altering the crossing on a cheque is addressed.

Any person who, with intent to defraud or deceive, without lawful authority makes, signs or executes a document or electronic record for or in the name of another person.

Anyone who obtains property or money through a probate or letters of administration based on a forged testamentary instrument or false evidence, knowing it to be forged or so obtained, commits an offence and is punishable as if they had forged the document.

Anyone who, without lawful authority or excuse, imports, purchases, receives, or possesses a forged bank or currency note knowing it to be forged commits a felony and is liable to seven years' imprisonment.

Public service employees who knowingly and with intent to defraud make out or deliver a false warrant for public money are guilty of a felony and liable to seven years' imprisonment.

Anyone who has custody of a register or record and knowingly allows a materially false entry to be made is committing a felony and faces up to seven years' imprisonment.

Any person who signs or transmits a marriage certificate (or a document purporting to be one) that they know is false commits a felony and may be imprisoned for seven years.

Any person who knowingly makes a false statement to be inserted in a register of births, deaths or marriages commits a felony and may be imprisoned for three years.

Defines "coin" and "counterfeit coin" for the Chapter.

Making or beginning to make counterfeit coin is a criminal offence punishable by life imprisonment.

Gilding or silvering a piece of metal of a fit size or figure with intent that it shall be coined into counterfeit coin.