Criminal Procedure Code
2. Interpretation
2. Interpretation
In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires—"cognizable offence" means an offence for which a police officer may, in accordance with the First Schedule or under any law for the time being in force, arrest without warrant;"complaint" deleted by Act No. 7 of 2007, Sch.;"drug related offence" means any specified in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act (Cap. 245) and includes the possession, manufacture, distribution or receipt of any drug of any quantity whatsoever;"non-cognizable offence" means an offence for which a police officer may not arrest without warrant;"officer in charge of a police station" includes any officer superior in rank to an officer in charge of a police station and also includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house, or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to that officer, and is above the rank of constable, or, when the Inspector-General of the National Police Service so directs, any other police officer so present;"plea agreement" means an agreement entered into between the prosecution and an accused person in a criminal trial in accordance with Part IV;"police officer" has the meaning assigned to it under the National Police Service Act (Cap. 84);"police station" has the meaning assigned to it under the National Police Service Act (Cap. 84);"prosecutor" means a public prosecutor or a person permitted by the court to conduct a prosecution under section 88 of the Act;"public prosecutor" means the Director of Public Prosecutions, a Prosecution Counsel, a person appointed under section 85 or a person acting under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions;"Registrar of the High Court" includes a Deputy Registrar of the High Court and a district registrar of the High Court;"summary trial" means a trial held by a subordinate court under Part VI.[Act No. 39 of 1951, s. 2, Act No. 22 of 1959, s. 2, Act No. 15 of 1961, Sch., Act No. 28 of 1961, Sch., Act No. 36 of 1962, Sch., Act No. 13 of 1967, First Sch., Act No. 17 of 1967, s. 23, Act No. 8 of 1968, Sch., Act No. 13 of 1982, s. 2, L.N. 124/1964, Act No. 14 of 1991, Sch., Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 59, Act No. 7 of 2007, Act No. 11 of 2008, s. 2, Act No. 12 of 2012, Sch., Act No. 18 of 2018, Sch, Act No. 19 of 2023, Sch.]Source: Kenya Law