CAP. 62A
Sexual Offences
Sexual Offences
[Rev. 2012]
40. Attorney-General to decide whether police investigations should be
discontinued
The decision as to whether the prosecution or investigation by any police officer
of a complaint that a sexual offence has been committed should be discontinued
shall rest with the Attorney-General.
41. Extra-territorial jurisdiction
(1) A person who, while being a citizen of, or permanently residing in Kenya,
commits an act outside Kenya which act would constitute a sexual offence had it
been committed in Kenya, is guilty of such an offence and is liable to the same
penalty prescribed for such offence under this Act.
(2) A person may not be convicted of an offence contemplated in subsection (1)
if such a person has been acquitted or convicted in the country where that offence
was committed.
42. Consent
For the purposes of this Act, a person consents if he or she agrees by choice,
and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice.
43. Intentional and unlawful acts
(1) An act is intentional and unlawful if it is committed—
(a) in any coercive circumstance;
(b) under false pretences or by fraudulent means; or
(c) in respect of a person who is incapable of appreciating the nature of
an act which causes the offence.
(2) The coercive circumstances, referred to in subsection (1)(a) include any
circumstances where there is—
(a) use of force against the complainant or another person or against the
property of the complainant or that of any other person;
(b) threat of harm against the complainant or another person or against
the property of the complainant or that of any other person; or
(c) abuse of power or authority to the extent that the person in respect
of whom an act is committed is inhibited from indicating his or her
resistance to such an act, or his or her unwillingness to participate in
such an act.
(3) False pretences or fraudulent means, referred to in subsection (1)(b),
include circumstances where a person—
(a) in respect of whom an act is being committed, is led to believe that
he or she is committing such an act with a particular person who is
in fact a different person;
(b) in respect of whom an act is being committed, is led to believe that
such an act is something other than that act; or
(c) intentionally fails to disclose to the person in respect of whom an act
is being committed, that he or she is infected by HIV or any other lifethreatening sexually transmittable disease.
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