Chapter 26

OFFENCES ALLIED TO STEALING.

276. Concealing registers.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorised or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any property, or for recording births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or a copy of any part of any such register which is required by law to be sent to any public office, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

277. Concealing wills.

Any person, who with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

278. Concealing deeds.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

279. Killing animal with intent to steal.

Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carcass, commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he or she had stolen the animal.

280. Severing with intent to steal.

Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he or she had stolen the thing after it had become movable.

281. Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods.

(1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee, and with intent to defraud, commits a misdemeanour. (2) In this section, “mortgaged goods” includes any goods and chattels of any kind, and any animals, and any progency of any animals, and any crops or produce of the soil, whether growing or severed, which are subject for the time being, by virtue of the provisions of any written law or of any written instrument, to a valid charge or lien by way of security for any debt or obligation.

282. Fraudulent dealing in minerals.

Any person who takes, conceals or otherwise disposes of any ore or any metal or mineral in or about a mine, with intent to defraud any person, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

283. Fraudulent appropriation of power.

Any person who fraudulently abstracts or diverts to his or her own use or to the use of any other person any mechanical, illuminating or electrical power derived from any machine, apparatus or substance, the property of another person, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

284. Unlawful use of vehicles, animals, etc.

Any person who, unlawfully and without colour of right, but not so as to be guilty of stealing, takes or converts to his or her own use or to the use of any other person, any draught or riding animal or any vehicle or cycle, however propelled, or any vessel, commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of one thousand shillings or to both such imprisonment and such fine.