Coffee (Movement Control) Rules
Made 1964 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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About this law
- Language
- English
- Kind
- Regulation
- Organisation
- African Union (AU)
- Country
- Kenya
- Subjects
- Agricultural and rural development
- Keywords
- coffee/cocoa/tea, transport/storage, authorization/permit, offences/penalties, agricultural commodities
- Categories
- softs
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THE COFFEE (MOVEMENT CONTROL) RULES L.N.380/1964, L.N.22/1979. 1. These Rules may be cited as the Coffee (Movement Control) Rules. 2. In these Rules, except where the context otherwise requires— "coffee" means clean coffee, parchment coffee and buni, but not the coffee fruit or cherry which has not been dried, roasted berries or ground berries; "move" in relation to coffee, means carry or move coffee by head load, parcel, pack-animal, vehicle, train or vessel, or by any other means whatsoever. 3. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall move any coffee, except under the authority of and in accordance with a written permit issued by the Board, or by some person authorized in writing by the Board for that purpose (whether such person is named in such authorization, or is specified by reference to his office or to his duties or his functions in any particular case). (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the movement of samples to, and addressed to, the Coffee Board of Kenya, P.O. Box 30566.Nairobi, or to the Kenya Plantation Co-operative Union Limited P.O. Box 72309, Nairobi, or to Endebess Estates Limited PO Box 2037, Endebess, via Kitale. 4. Every person moving coffee shall carry with such coffee a written permit issued under these Rules, and shall produce such permit on request to any police officer or to any inspector: Provided that, where coffee is being moved by a train operated by Kenya Railways, the permit issued in respect of such coffee shall be handed to the station-master at the station where the coffee is loaded on to the train and shall be retained by such station-master. 5. No person shall move any coffee between the hours of half-past six o clock in the evening and half past six o'clock in the morning, except by a train operated by Kenya Railways. 6. Any person who contravenes these Rules shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.