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its mother or claimed to be its father.
169A. Cruelty to children
(1) Any person who, having the custody, charge or care of any person under eighteen years
of age, ill treats, neglects or abandons that person or causes female genital mutilation or carries
or causes to be carried out female genital mutilation or procures that person to be assaulted.
ill-treated, neglected or abandoned in a manner likely to cause him suffering or injury to health,
including injury to, or loss of, sight or hearing, or limb or organ of the body or any mental
derangement, commits the offence of cruelty to children..
(2) Any person who commits the offence of cruelty to children is liable on conviction to
imprisonment for a term of not less than five years and not exceeding fifteen years or to a fine
not exceeding three hundred thousand shillings or to both the fine and imprisonment, an shall
be ordered to pay compensation of an amount determined by the court to the person in respect
of whom the offence was committed for the injuries caused to that person.
CHAPTER XVII
NUISANCES AND OFFENCES AGAINST HEALTH AND CONVENIENCE (ss 170-186)
170. Common nuisance
(1) Any person who does an act not authorised by law or omits to discharge a legal duty and
thereby causes any common injury or danger or annoyance, or obstructs or causes
inconvenience to the public in the exercise of common rights commits the offence termed a
"common nuisance", and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
(2) It is immaterial that the act or omission complained of is convenient to a larger number of
the public than it inconveniences, but the fact that it facilitates the lawful exercise of their rights
by a part of the public may show that it is not a nuisance to any of the public.
171. Gaming houses
(1) Any person being the owner or occupier, or having the use of, any house, room or place,
who opens, keeps, or uses it for the purpose of unlawful gaming being carried on therein, and
any person who, being the owner or occupier of any house, room or place, knowingly and
wilfully permits it to be opened, kept or used by any other person for any of those, purposes,
and any person having the care or management of or in any manner assisting in conducting the
business of any house, room or place opened, kept or used for such purposes is said to keep a
common gaming house.
(2) In this section "unlawful gaming" means any game the chances of which are not alike
favourable to all the players, including the banker or other person or persons by whom the
game is managed or against whom the other players stake, play or bet.
(3) Any person who keeps a common gaming house is guilty of an offence.