ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
5. Offences relating to poisoned grain and flesh, etc.
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
5. Offences relating to poisoned grain and flesh, etc.
(1)A person who—(a)sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or gives away, or causes or procures any person to sell or offer or expose for sale or give away, or knowingly is a party to the sale or offering or exposing for sale or giving away of any grain or seed which has been rendered poisonous except for bona fide use in agriculture; or(b)knowingly puts or places, or causes or procures any person to put or place, or knowingly is a party to the putting or placing in or upon any land or building any poison, or any fluid or edible matter (not being sown seed or grain) which has been rendered poisonous,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred shillings.(2)It shall be a defence to proceedings under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) that the poison was placed for the purpose of destroying insects and other invertebrates, rats, mice and small ground vermin or any other animals where such is found to be necessary in the interests of public health, agriculture, or the preservation of other animals, or for the purpose of manuring the land, and that all reasonable precautions to prevent injury to other animals were taken.