ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act
29. Betting in public places an offence
Edition: 2025-06-20 · Repealed
29. Betting in public places an offence
(1)Subject to this Act, a person who frequents or loiters in a street or public place, on behalf either of himself or of any other person, for the purposes of bookmaking, betting, agreeing to bet, or paying, receiving or settling bets shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both; but this subsection shall not apply to anything done on ground used, or adjacent to ground used, for the purpose of an authorized race meeting.(2)A police officer may arrest without warrant anyone whom he finds in a street or public place and whom he suspects, with reasonable cause, to be committing an offence under this section.(3)In this section—(a)"street" includes a bridge, road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, which is for the time being open to the public; and(b)the doorway and entrances of premises abutting upon ground adjoining and open to a street shall be treated as forming part of the street.29A. Betting tax
(1)There shall be a tax to be known as betting tax chargeable at the rate of fifteen per cent of the gaming revenue.(2)The tax shall be paid to the Collector by the licensed bookmaker on the 20th day of the month following the month of collection.(3)This section shall not apply to horse racing.