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Kenya Defence Forces
Kenya Defence Forces
[Rev. 2012]
Prize Offences
109. Prize offences by person in command
(1) A person subject to this Act who is in command of an aircraft or ship commits
an offence if that person—
(a) having taken any aircraft or ship as prize, fails to send to the High
Court; or to some other prize court having jurisdiction in the case, all
the aircraft's papers or ship's papers, as the case may be, found on
board;
(b) unlawfully makes any agreement for the ransoming of any aircraft,
ship or goods taken as prize; or
(c) under any agreement contemplated in paragraph (b), or otherwise by
collusion, restores or abandons any aircraft, ship or goods taken as
prize.
(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable, on
conviction by a court-martial, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years
or any lesser punishment provided for by this Act.
110. Prize offences by others
(1) A person who is subject to this Act commits an offence if that person—
(a) strikes or otherwise ill-treats any person who is on board an aircraft
or ship taken as prize, or who unlawfully takes from any such person
anything in the person's possession;
(b) removes out of any aircraft or ship taken as prize, otherwise than for
safe keeping or for the necessary use of the Defence Forces, any
goods not previously adjudged by a prize court to be lawful prize; or
(c) breaks bulk on board any aircraft or ship taken as prize, or detained
in exercise of any belligerent right or under any law, with intent to
embezzle or fraudulently misapply anything therein.
(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable, on
conviction by a court-martial, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years
or any lesser punishment provided for by this Act.
Miscellaneous Offences
111. Political activities
A person subject to this Act and who—
(a) promotes or is a member of, or takes part in the activities of, any
political association;
(b) expresses political views in public; or
(c) addresses any meeting, or joins in any demonstration, the purpose of
which is to express support for a political association or object or for
a candidate in a national, county election or a cause in a referendum,
commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction by a court-martial, to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any lesser punishment
provided for by this Act but this section does not prevent any person from voting
at such an election or referendum.
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