Penal Code, 1930 🇰🇪

Kenya

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Penal Code, 1930

Commenced on 31 October 2023
[This is the version of this document from 31 October 2023.]

An Act of Parliament to establish a code of criminal law.

Part I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter I
PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

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

2. Saving

Except as hereinafter expressly provided nothing in this Code shall affect—

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

(b)the liability of a person to be tried or punished under any law in force in Kenya relating to the jurisdiction of the courts of Kenya for an offence in respect of an act done beyond the ordinary jurisdiction of such courts; or

(c)the power of any court to punish a person for contempt of such court; or

(d)the liability or trial of a person, or the punishment of a person under any sentence passed or to be passed, in respect of any a…

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