ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
11. Prohibition of films involving cruelty to animals
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
11. Prohibition of films involving cruelty to animals
(1)No person shall exhibit to the public, nor supply to any person for public exhibition (whether by him or by another person), any cinematograph film if in connexion with the production of the film any scene represented in the film was organized or directed in such a way as to involve the cruel infliction of pain on or terror to an animal or the cruel goading of any animal to fury.(2)In any proceedings brought under this section in respect of any film, the court may (without prejudice to any other mode of proof) infer from the film as exhibited to the public or supplied for public exhibition, as the case may be, that a scene represented in the film as so exhibited or supplied was organized or directed in such a way as to involve the cruel infliction of pain on or terror to any animal or the cruel goading of any animal to fury, but (whether the court draws the inference or not) it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed, and had reasonable cause to believe, that no scene so represented was so organized or directed.(3)Any person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to both.(4)For the purposes of this section, a cinematograph film shall be deemed to be exhibited to the public when, and only when, it is exhibited in a place to which for the time being members of the general public as such have access, whether on payment of money or otherwise, and the expression "public exhibition" shall be construed accordingly.