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CAP. 172
Immigration
[Rev. 2010
endorsements and visas required from time to time by the government
or authority issuing the passport or document or by the Government of
Kenya or by any written law;
Act;
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this
“prohibited immigrant” has the meaning ascribed thereto in
section 3;
“the repealed Acts” means the Acts repealed and the subsidiary
legislation revoked by section 22.
(2) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires,
any reference to this Act includes a reference to regulations made
thereunder.
Prohibited Immigrants
Prohibited
immigrants.
3. (1) In this Act, a prohibited immigrant means a person who is
not a citizen of Kenya and who is–
(a) incapable of supporting himself and his dependants (if any)
in Kenya;
(b) a mental defective or a person suffering from mental
disorder;
(c) a person who–
(i) refuses to submit to examination by a medical practitioner after
being required to do so under section 11 (1) (d); or
(ii) is certified by a medical practitioner to be suffering from a
disease which makes his presence in Kenya undesirable for medical
reasons;
(d) a person who, not having received a free pardon, has been
convicted in any country, including Kenya, of murder
or of any offence for which a sentence of imprisonment
has been passed for any term and who, by reason of such
conviction, is considered by the Minister to be an undesirable
immigrant;
(e) a prostitute, or a person who is living on or receiving, or
who before entering Kenya lived on or received, the proceeds
of prostitution;