PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER VI – PUNISHMENTS

26. Imprisonment
(2) Save as may be expressly provided by the law under which the offence concerned is punishable, a person liable to imprisonment for life or any other period may be sentenced to any shorter term.

PART II – CRIMES

Division I – Offences against Public Order

CHAPTER VII –TREASON AND ALLIED OFFENCES

44. Promoting warlike undertaking
Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on, or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or advises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike undertaking with, for, by or against any person or body or group of persons in Kenya, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

PART VI – SERVICE OFFENCES

Offences concerning Courts Martial and other Authorities

131. Attempt to commit an offence
A person subject to this Act who attempts to commit an offence under any of the provisions of this Act commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction by a court-martial, to—
(a) imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, if the attempted offence is punishable by death or by imprisonment for life; or
(b) the same punishment as is provided for the attempted offence, in this Act or any other law.

3. Grave breach of Convention

(1) (d) (i) in the case of a grave breach involving the wilful killing of the person protected by the Convention in question, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life; and

PART I—PRELIMINARY

International Crimes

6. (3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) shall on conviction be liable—

(b) to imprisonment for life or for a lesser term, in any other case.