Fugitive Offenders Pursuit Act, 1936 🇰🇪

Kenya

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Fugitive Offenders Pursuit Act, 1936

Act 33 of 1936

Commenced on 3 December 1936
[This is the version of this document from 3 December 1936.]

An Act of Parliament to authorize the police of Uganda and Tanzania to pursue within Kenya offenders fugitive from such territories

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders Pursuit Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—“adjoining territory” means Tanzania and Uganda;“offence” means an offence for which surrender to an adjoining territory can be made under the Extradition (Contiguous and Foreign Countries) Act (Cap.76.);“offender” means a person who has committed, or is reasonably suspected of having committed, an offence in an adjoining territory;“police of an adjoining territory” means any uniformed member of the police force established by law in the adjoining territory and any person having powers of arrest derived from a tribal or other native authority in that adjoinin…

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