Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
"authority" means having power and control over other people because of your knowledge and official position; and shall include a person who exercises religious, political, economic or social authority;
"child" means a person below the age of eighteen years;
"court" means a chief magistrates court;
"currency point" has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;
"disability" means a substantial limitation of daily life activities caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment and environment barriers resulting in limited participation;
"felony" means an offence which is declared by law to be a felony or if not declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable without proof of previous conviction, with death or with imprisonment for three years or more;
"HIV" means the Human Immunodeficiency Virus;
"homosexual" means a person who engages or attempts to engage in same gender sexual activity;
"homosexuality" means same gender or same sex sexual acts;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for ethics and integrity;
"misdemeanor" means any offence which is not a felony;
"serial offender" means a person who has previous convictions of the offence of homosexuality or related offences;
"sexual act" includes-
physical sexual activity that does not necessarily culminate in intercourse and may include the touching of another's breast, vagina, penis or anus;
stimulation or penetration of a vagina or mouth or anus or any part of the body of any person, however slight by a sexual organ;
the unlawful use of any object or organ by a person on another person's sexual organ or anus or mouth;
"sexual organ" means a vagina, penis or any artificial sexual contraption;
"touching" includes touching-
with any part of the body;
with anything else;
through anything; and in particular includes touching amounting to penetration of any sexual organ, anus or mouth.
"victim" includes a person who is involved in homosexual activities against his or her will.
Section analysis Source linked
This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "authority" means having power and control over other people because of your knowledge and official position; and shall include a person who exercises religious, political, economic or social authority;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- "child" means a person below the age of eighteen years;
- "court" means a chief magistrates court;
- "currency point" has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;
- "disability" means a substantial limitation of daily life activities caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment and environment barriers resulting in limited participation;
- "felony" means an offence which is declared by law to be a felony or if not declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable without proof of previous conviction, with death or with imprisonment for three years or more;
- "HIV" means the Human Immunodeficiency Virus;
- "homosexual" means a person who engages or attempts to engage in same gender sexual activity;
- "homosexuality" means same gender or same sex sexual acts;
7 further items remain in the statutory text above.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.
No express internal or cross-Act reference appears in this section.
No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.