Section 680 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Offence for public company to fail to present annual financial statement and reports at general meeting of company

(1) The directors of a quoted company shall, before the general meeting at which the financial statement is to be presented, give to the members of the company entitled to be sent notice of the...

(1) If the directors of a quoted company fail to comply with section 681(1), eachof the directors who is in default, commit an offence and on conviction are each liable to a fine not exceeding five...

(1) The directors of a company shall lodge with the Registrar for each financial year the financial statement and reports required by section 686, 687 or 688.

(1) The deadline for lodging with the Registrar the documents referred to in section 683(1) is— (a) for a private company — nine months after the end of the company's relevant accounting reference...

(1) This section applies for the purpose of calculating the deadline for lodging a company’s financial statement that is expressed as a specified number of months from a specified date or after the...

(1) The directors of a company that is subject to the small companies regime— (a) shall lodge with the Registrar for each financial year a copy of a balance sheet drawn up as at the last day of that...

(1) The directors of an unquoted company shall lodge with the Registrar foreach financial year of the company a copy of— (a) the company's annual financial statement; (b) the directors' report;...

(1) The directors of a quoted company shall lodge with the Registrar for each financial year of the company a copy of— (a) the company's annual financial statement; (b) the directors' remuneration...

(1) The directors of an unlimited company are not required to lodge a financial statement with the Registrar in respect of a financial year if at no time during the relevant accounting reference...

(1) This section applies when— (a) the directors of a company lodge an abbreviated financial statement with the Registrar; and (b) the company is not exempt from audit, or the directors have not...

(1) An abbreviated financial statement of a company is not valid until it has been approved by the company’s board of directors and signed on behalf of the board by a director of the company. (2) The...

(1) If the requirements of section 683 are not complied with in relation to the lodgement of a company’s financial statement and reports for a financial year before the deadline for lodging them, each...

(1) If— (a) the requirements of section 683 have not been complied with in relation to a company's financial statement or reports for a financial year before the deadline for lodging them with the...

(1) A company is liable to a default penalty if the requirements of section 683 are not complied with in relation to lodging the company’s annual financial statement and reports with the Registrar by...

(1) This section applies to the following documents—(a) the annual financial statement of a company; (b) a directors' remuneration report; (c) the directors' report of a company; (d) a summary...

(1) If— (a) copies of the financial statement or a directors’ report for a financial year of a company have been sent out under section 662; or (b) a copy of that financial statement or report has...

(1) If at the end of the period referred to in section 696(2), or such extended period as the Cabinet Secretary may allow, it appears to that Secretary that the directors have not— (a) given a...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may, in writing, authorise for the purposes of section697 any person who appears to the Cabinet Secretary— (a) to have an interest in, and to have satisfactory procedures...

(1) The Kenya Revenue Authority may disclose information to the Cabinet Secretary or a person authorised under section 698 for the purpose of facilitating— (a) the taking of steps by that person to...

(1) This section applies if it appears to the Cabinet Secretary or a person who is authorised under section 698 that there is, or may be, a question whether a company’s annual financial statement or a...

(1) This section applies to information obtained in accordance with a requirement or order under section 700 that relates to the private affairs of a natural person or to any particular...

(1) The prohibition in section 701 against disclosing information obtained in accordance with a requirement or order under section 700 that relates to the private affairs of a natural person or to any...

(1) This section applies to the following documents—a directors’ report; a directors’ remuneration report; and a summary financial statement so far as it is derived from either of those...

The regulations may provide for all or any of the following— (a) the financial statements that companies are required by this Act to prepare; (b) the categories of companies required to prepare...

(1) Every company shall submit to the Registrar successive annual returnseach of which is made up to a date not later than the date that is from time to time the company’s return date. (2) The...

(1) A company shall ensure that its annual return states the date to which it is made up and contains the following information— (a) the address of the company's registered office and, if a Post...

(1) A company having a share capital shall include in its annual return—(a) a statement of capital; and (b) the particulars required by subsections (3) to (6) about the members of the...

(1) If a company fails to lodge an annual return as required by section 705(1) orlodges an annual return that does not comply with section 705(3), the company, and each officer of the company who is...

(1) The directors of a company shall ensure that the company’s annual financial statements for a financial year are audited in accordance with this Part unless the company— (a) is exempt from audit...

(1) The members of a company that would otherwise be entitled to exemptionfrom audit under any of the provisions referred to in section 709(1)(a) may by notice under this section require it to obtain...

(1) A company that complies with the conditions of subsection (2) in respect of a financial year is exempt from the requirements of this Act relating to the audit of accounts for that year. (2) The...

A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by section 711 if it was a public company, or carried on a banking or insurance business, at any time within the relevant financial year.

(1) A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by section 711 in respect of a financial year during any part of which it was a group company unless— (a) the conditions specified in...

(1) A company is exempt from the requirements of this Act relating to the auditof financial statements in respect of a financial year if— (a) it has been dormant since its formation; or (b) it has...

A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by section 714 if it was at any time within the relevant financial year a company that was— (a) an insurance company, a banking company or an...

(1) The requirements of this Part as to audit of financial statements do not apply to a company for a financial year if it is non-profit making and its financial statements are subject to audit by the...

(1) A private company shall appoint an auditor or auditors for each financial year of the company, unless the directors resolve that an audited financial statement is unlikely to be required. (2) For...

(1) If a private company has failed to appoint an auditor within the period forappointing auditors, the company shall, within seven days after the end of that period, notify the Registrar of the...

(1) An auditor or auditors of a private company hold office in accordance with the terms of their appointment, subject to the requirements that— (a) they do not take office until any previous auditor...

(1) An auditor of a private company is not taken to be re–appointed by theoperation of section 719(2) if the company has received notices under this section from members who hold at least the...

(1) A public company is required to have an auditor or auditors for each financial year of the company, unless the directors reasonably resolve otherwise on the ground that an audited financial...

(1) If an auditor or auditors have not been appointed for a public company within the period for appointing auditors, the company shall, within seven days after the end of that period, notify the...

(1) The auditor or auditors of a public company hold office in accordance withthe terms of their appointment, subject to the requirements that— (a) they do not take office until the previous auditor...

(1) If an auditor is appointed by the members of a company, the membersshall fix the auditor’s remuneration, either by ordinary resolution or in such as the members may, by ordinary resolution,...

(1) A company shall disclose the terms on which the company’s auditor is appointed, remunerated or is required to carry out his or her responsibilities. (2) In making a disclosure under subsection...

The Cabinet Secretary shall ensure that the regulations provide for safeguarding the disclosure of the nature of any services provided for a company by the company’s auditor, whether in the auditor’s...

(1) An auditor shall make a report to the members of the company on all annualfinancial statements of the company of which copies are, during the auditor’s tenure of office— (a) in the case of a...

The auditor shall state in the auditor’s report on the company’s annual financial statement whether in the auditor’s opinion the information given in the directors’ report for the financial year for...

(1) In reporting on the annual financial statement of a quoted company, theauditor shall— (a) report to the company’s members on the auditable part of the directors’ remuneration report;...

(1) In reporting on the annual financial statement of a company, the company’s auditor shall carry out such investigations as will enable the auditor to form an opinion— (a) whether adequate...