# Indexed passage in the Constitution of Kenya

- Jurisdiction: Kenya (KE)
- Chapter (as indexed): Chapter SIXTEEN: —AMENDMENT OF THIS CONSTITUTION
- Source document: The Kenya Constitution
- Canonical (HTML): https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/b9fc41a3-9b66-4510-867d-02a20a43728b
- This document: https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/b9fc41a3-9b66-4510-867d-02a20a43728b/md
- Constitution: https://www.portablelaw.com/countries/03fe64e6-7dc2-4959-950b-e59f32a20028

## Verbatim text

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255—Amendment of this Constitution.
256—Amendment by parliamentary initiative.
257—Amendment by popular initiative.
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## What this means (mechanical reading aid, not legal advice)

- The index files it under the chapter heading “Chapter SIXTEEN: —AMENDMENT OF THIS CONSTITUTION”.
- The passage runs to about 12 words.
- **Caveat:** The index holds no article number for this record. Cite the passage itself rather than a section number.
- **Caveat:** No rights vocabulary from our fixed word list appears in this passage, so no plain-language reading is offered for it.

> This is a mechanical reading aid generated from the text above by matching words in it. It is not legal advice, not a lawyer’s interpretation, and not a substitute for the provision itself.

## How to cite this

Constitution of Kenya, passage filed under chapter “Chapter SIXTEEN: —AMENDMENT OF THIS CONSTITUTION”, Portable Lawyer, https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/b9fc41a3-9b66-4510-867d-02a20a43728b (accessed 27 September 2026).

## Related

- [Constitution of Kenya](https://www.portablelaw.com/countries/03fe64e6-7dc2-4959-950b-e59f32a20028)
- [Kenya on Portable Lawyer](https://www.portablelaw.com/countries/03fe64e6-7dc2-4959-950b-e59f32a20028)
- [HTML version of this provision](https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/b9fc41a3-9b66-4510-867d-02a20a43728b)
- [Machine-readable corpus digest](https://www.portablelaw.com/llms-full.txt)

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Portable Lawyer · A provision of the Constitution of Kenya (chapter: “Chapter SIXTEEN: —AMENDMENT OF THIS CONSTITUTION”). 255—Amendment of this Constitution. 256—Amendment by parliamentary initiative. 257—Amendment by popular initiative.