[Rev. 2012] (c) (d) (e) Penal Code CAP. 63 carries on or takes part in any business, whether public or private concerned with any such matters or things, or deals in any such matters or things in any manner whatsoever, or distributes any of them, or exhibits any of them publicly, or makes a business of lending any of them; or advertises or makes known by any means whatsoever, with a view to assisting the circulation of or traffic in any such matters or things, that a person is engaged in any of the acts referred to in this section, or advertises or makes known how, or from whom, any such matters or things can be procured either directly or indirectly; or publicly exhibits any indecent show or performance or any show or performance tending to corrupt morals, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for two years or to a fine of seven thousand shillings. (2) If, in respect of any of the offences specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1), any constituent element thereof is committed in Kenya, such commission shall be sufficient to render the person accused of such offence triable therefore in Kenya. (3) A court, on convicting any person of an offence against this section, may order to be destroyed any matter or thing made, possessed or used for the purpose of that offence. (4) A court may, on the application of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Solicitor-General, a State Counsel or a Superintendent of Police, order the destruction of any obscene matter or thing to which this section relates, whether any person may or may not have been convicted under this section in respect of the obscene matter or thing. [Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 35.] 182. Idle and disorderly persons The following persons— (a) every common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in any public place; (b) every person causing, procuring or encouraging any person to beg or gather alms; (c) deleted by Act No. 61 of 1968, s. 22; (d) every person who publicly conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace; (e) every person who without lawful excuse publicly does any indecent act; (f) every person who in any public place solicits for immoral purposes; (g) deleted by Act No. 61 of 1968, s. 22, shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and are guilty of a misdemeanour and are liable for the first offence to imprisonment for one month or to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings, or to both and for every subsequent offence to imprisonment for one year. [Act No. 40 of 1952, Sch., Act No. 9 of 1966, s. 71, Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch., Act No. 61 of 1968, s. 22.] P6-63 [Issue 1]

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