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(d) wilfully molests, hinders or obstructs the officer in charge of any railway or his
assistants or workmen in the execution of any work done or to be done in reference to
the construction or maintenance of the railway,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine of four hundred
shillings.
332. Threats to burn or destroy
Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, sends, delivers, utters or directly or indirectly
causes to be received any letter or writing threatening to burn or destroy any house, barn or
other building or any rick or stack of grain, hay or straw, or other agricultural produce, whether
in or under any building or not, or any vessel, or to kill, maim or wound any cattle, is guilty of an
offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
332A. Defacing bank notes
Any person who, without authority, wilfully defaces, tears, cuts or otherwise mutilates any
bank note or currency note which is legal tender, is guilty of an schedule offence and is liable
on conviction to a fine of five thousand shillings for each note defaced or, in default, to
imprisonment for a term of one year.
332B. Kite-flying
(1) Subject to subsection (3), any person who fraudulently obtains credit or money of any
amount from a banker by means of kite-flying is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
(2) Any person employed by a bank who, by virtue of his office, fraudulently assists another
person to obtain credit or money of any amount from a bank by means of kite-flying is guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
(3) A person shall be presumed fraudulent and guilty of an offence under this section if the
cheque drawn by him is not honoured for reason of lack or insufficiency of funds in the account
and within eight days after he is informed of the dishonoured cheque he fails or refuses to
make good on the account.
(4) Where any person is convicted of an offence under this section the court shall order the
forfeiture to the United Republic of any money, goods or property obtained in the course of or
after the commission of the offence, as well as full compensation to the bank in respect of the
money involved in the kite-flying.
(5) For the purposes of this section the expression "kite-flying" means obtaining money or
credit by cheque on an account which has insufficient or no funds at all, thereby causing an
unauthorised overdraft to a banker.