{"id":3073,"date":"2024-11-21T23:38:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:38:51","slug":"is-it-an-offence-not-to-carry-a-driving-license-should-i-allow-a-police-officer-in-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/is-it-an-offence-not-to-carry-a-driving-license-should-i-allow-a-police-officer-in-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it an offence not to carry a driving license? Should I allow a police officer in my car?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenyan’s in their peculiarity will seek advice from all sources; They will ask everybody from a lunatic to the witch-doctor except the authentic source. A recent video that went viral portrays a motorist arguing angrily with 2 police officers justifying how he is allowed to drive without carrying a valid license and that the officers are not supposed to step into his vehicle. Before you play bad-ass to your own peril it is important to listen from the horses mouth. What does the law of the land say about these issues?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Traffic Act (CAP 403)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Link:\u00a0http:\/\/kenyalaw.org\/lex\/actview.xql?actid=CAP.%20403<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

36. Production of driving licence on demand<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) Any person driving a motor vehicle on a road shall carry his driving licence or provisional licence, and, on being so required by a police officer, produce it for examination.<\/span><\/p>\n

2)For the purposes of this section, \u201cdriving licence or provisional licence\u201d includes such other evidence as will satisfy the police that there is no contravention of section 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

(3)Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

105. Inspection of vehicles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer in uniform to stop any vehicle, and for any police officer, licensing officer or inspector\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

(a)to enter any vehicle;<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) to drive any vehicle or cause any vehicle to be driven;<\/span><\/p>\n

(c)upon reasonable suspicion of any offence under this Act, to order and require the owner of any vehicle to bring the vehicle to him,<\/span><\/p>\n

Validity of licenses & permits<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) The following licences and permits shall be deemed to be driving licences in respect of the class or classes of vehicles for which they are issued,& throughout the period of their validity, except where otherwise hereinafter specified.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenyan’s in their peculiarity will seek advice from all sources; They will ask everybody from a lunatic to the witch-doctor except the authentic source. A recent video that went viral portrays a motorist arguing angrily with 2 police officers justifying how he is allowed to drive without carrying a valid license and that the officers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-advice"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-Nz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Driving-without-a-license-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}