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118. Removal, etc., of property under lawful seizure
Any person who, when any property has been attached or taken under the process of
authority of any court, knowingly and with intent to hinder or defeat the attachment or process,
receives, removes, retains, conceals or disposes of the property, is guilty of an offence and is
liable to imprisonment for three years.
119. Repealed
[Repealed by Ord. No. 5 of 1961 s. 7.]
CHAPTER XIII
MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC AUTHORITY (ss 120-124A)
120. Frauds and breaches of trust by public officers
A person employed in the public service who, in the discharge of the duties of his office,
commits any fraud or breach of trust affecting the public, whether the fraud or breach of trust
would have been criminal or not if committed against a private person, is guilty of an offence
and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.
121. Neglect of official duty
A person employed in the public service who wilfully neglects to perform any duty which he is
bound either by common law or by any written law to perform, unless the discharge of the duty
is not attended with greater danger than a man of ordinary courage and activity might be
expected to encounter, is guilty of an offence.
122. False information to person employed in the public service
Whoever gives to any person employed in the public service any information which he knows
or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
cause that person–
(a) to do or omit anything which that person ought not to do or omit, if the true state of
facts respecting which the information is given were known to him; or
(b) to use the lawful power of that person to the injury or annoyance of any person,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of
one thousand shillings or to both the fine and imprisonment.
123. Disobedience of statutory duty
A person who wilfully contravenes any written law by doing any act which it forbids or by
omitting to do any act which it requires to be done and which concerns the public or any part of
the public, is guilty of an offence and is liable, unless a different punishment is provided by that