[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
CAP. 63
92. Affray
Any person who takes part in a fight in a public place is guilty of a misdemeanour
and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
93. Challenge to duel
Any person who challenges another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke
another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke any person to challenge another to
fight a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
94. Offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace
(1) Any person who in a public place or at a public gathering uses threatening,
abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace
or whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is guilty of an offence
and is liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings or to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding six months or to both.
(2) In this section, “public gathering” means—
(a) any meeting, gathering or concourse of ten or more persons in any
public place; or
(b) any meeting or gathering which the public or any section of the
public or more than fifty persons are permitted to attend or do attend,
whether on payment or otherwise; or
(c) any procession in, to or from a public place.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 18.]
95. Threatening breach of the peace or violence
(1) Any person who—
(a) uses obscene, abusive or insulting language, to his employer or to
any person placed in authority over him by his employer, in such a
manner as is likely to cause a breach of the peace; or
(b) brawls or in any other manner creates a disturbance in such a manner
as is likely to cause a breach of the peace,
is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for six months.
(2) Any person who—
(a) with intent to intimidate or annoy any person, threatens to break or
injure a dwelling-house; or
(b) with intent to alarm any person in a dwelling-house, discharges a
loaded firearm or commits any other breach of the peace,
is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years, or, if the
offence is committed in the night, to imprisonment for four years.
[Act No. 53 of 1952, Sch.]
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