| CHAPTER 411A - KENYA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ACT | HOME | ||
| 44. Unlawfully sending of misleading messages, etc. | |
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Enforcement of regulations as to sales, etc. by manufacturers and others. | Deliberate interference with radio communication. |
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| Unlawfully sending of misleading messages, etc. 1 of 2009 s.14 | 44. Any person who - (a) by means of radio communication, sends or attempts to send any message which to his knowledge is false or misleading and is to his knowledge likely to prejudice the efficiency of any safety-of-life service or endanger the safety of any person, or of any vessel, aircraft or vehicle, and, in particular, any message which to his knowledge falsely suggests that a vessel or aircraft is in distress or in need of assistance or is not in distress or not in need of assistance; or (b) otherwise than under the authority of the Minister for the time being responsible for internal security - (i) uses any radio communication apparatus with intent to obtain information as to the contents, sender or addressee of any message, (whether sent by means of radio communication or not) which neither the person using the station or apparatus nor any person on whose behalf he is acting is authorized to receive; or (ii) except in the course of legal proceedings or for the purposes of any report thereon, discloses any information as to the contents, sender or addressee of any such message, being information which would not have come to his knowledge but for the use of the radio communication station or radio communication apparatus by him or by any other person acting on his behalf, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one million shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both. |
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