CAP. 75 Criminal Procedure Code [Rev. 2012] 329F. Rules of court The Chief Justice may make any rules of court necessary or expedient to be made for carrying this Part into effect. [Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 88.] PART X – SENTENCES AND THEIR EXECUTION SENTENCE OF DEATH 330. Accused to be informed of right to appeal When an accused person is sentenced to death, the court shall inform him of the time within which, if he wishes to appeal, his appeal should be preferred. 331. Authority for detention A certificate under the hand of the Registrar or other officer of the court that sentence of death has been passed, and naming the person condemned, shall be sufficient authority for the detention of that person. 332. Record and report to be sent to President (1) As soon as conveniently may be after sentence of death has been pronounced, if no appeal from the sentence is confirmed, then as soon as conveniently may be after confirmation, the presiding judge shall forward to the President a copy of the notes of evidence taken on the trial, with a report in writing signed by him containing any recommendation or observations on the case he may think fit to make. (2) The President, after considering the report, shall communicate to the judge, or his successor in office, the terms of any decision to which he may come thereon, and the judge shall cause the tenor and substance thereof to be entered in the records of the court. (3) The President shall issue a death warrant, or an order for the sentence of death to be commuted, or a pardon, under his hand and the Public Seal of Kenya to give effect to the decision, and— (a) if the sentence of death is to be carried out, the warrant shall state the place where and the time when execution is to be had, and shall give directions as to the place of burial or cremation of the body of the person executed; (b) if the sentence is commuted for any other punishment, the order shall specify that punishment; (c) if the person sentenced is pardoned, the pardon shall state whether it is free, or to what conditions (if any) it is subject: Provided that the President’s warrant may direct that the execution shall take place at such time and at such place and that the body of the person executed shall be buried or cremated at such place as shall be appointed by some officer specified in the warrant. (4) The warrant, or order, or pardon, of the President shall be sufficient authority in law to all persons to whom it is directed to execute the sentence of death or other punishment awarded, and to carry out the directions therein given in accordance with the terms thereof. [Act No. 36 of 1962, Sch., L.N. 182/1958, L.N. 124/1964.] [Issue 1] C44 - 90