ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Penal Code
104. False assumption of authority
Edition: 2023-12-11 · In force
104. False assumption of authority
Any person who—(a)not being a judicial officer, assumes to act as a judicial officer; or(b)without authority assumes to act as a person having authority by law to administer an oath or take a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit or to do any other act of a public nature which can only be done by persons authorized by law to do so; or(c)represents himself to be a person authorized by law to sign a document testifying to the contents of any register or record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact or event, and signs such document as being so authorized, when he is not, and knows that he is not, in fact, so authorized, is guilty of a misdemeanour.