ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Hide, Skin and Leather Trade Act
19. Offences
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
19. Offences
(1)No person shall sell or offer for sale, shall be in possession of, purchase, sell or offer for sale, any green or dried hide which is smeared with blood, dung or any foreign substance.(2)A person who—(a)for the purposes of sale, treats any hide or skin with any substance which is not specified by the Director by notice in the Gazette;(b)treats or prepares a sun-dried hide or skin with the object of selling it as a shade or suspension-dried hide or skin;(c)without the permission of an inspector, prepares, treats or cures any raw hide or skin with the object of selling it as leather or soaks, immerses or in any other way applies liquid to any hide or skin which has been partially or wholly dried;(d)without the consent of the Director, or of an inspector authorized for the purpose by the Director, removes, alters or defaces any mark or label made on or attached to a hide, skin or leather in pursuance of this Act or of any rules made thereunder;(e)makes a statement which is to his knowledge untrue in an application for any licence required under this Act or under any rules made thereunder;(f)contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule made, or of any lawful order issued, thereunder;(h)obstructs an inspector, or any other authorized person, in the exercise or his powers and duties under this Act or under any rules made thereunder,shall be guilty of an offence.(3)Nothing contained in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of subsection (2) shall apply to hides used for making harness for yoke oxen or for making thongs for securing domestic animals or for other domestic purposes.(4)Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Act or under any rules made thereunder shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.