Section 790 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Power of Court to direct conduct of investigation under this Division to be terminated

(1) An inspector appointed under section 786 or 787 may resign by notice givento the Court. (2) The Court may revoke the appointment of an inspector by notice given to the inspector.

(1) If an inspector appointed by the Court to conduct an investigation resigns ordies, or the inspector’s appointment is revoked by the Court, the Court may appoint an inspector to continue the...

(1) Every officer and agent of a company in relation to which an inspector has been appointed under section 786 or 787 and, if the investigation extends to a body corporate related to the company,...

(1) If an officer or agent of the company or other body corporate— (a) refuses to produce to an inspector a document that the inspector has, under section 793, required the officer or agent to...

(1) If an inspector appointed under section 786 or 787 believes it necessary for the purpose of the investigation that a person whom the inspector has no power to examine on oath should be so...

(1) This section applies to a person who has been appointed as an inspector under section 786 or 787, but— (a) who has since resigned; or whose appointment has since been revoked. (2) This section...

(1) An inspector appointed by the Court— (a) may (and if so directed by the Court, shall) make interim reports to the Court about the progress of the investigation; and (b) as soon as practicable...

(1) If it appears to the Court that a person has, in relation to the company or to any other body corporate whose affairs have been investigated committed an offence for which the person is criminally...

(1) The expenses of and incidental to an investigation by inspectors appointed by the Court are in the first instance to be met by the Attorney General, but the persons referred to in subsections (2)...

(1) If satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, the Attorney General shall appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate and report on the membership of a company for the...

An inspector appointed by the Attorney General may also investigate the ownership of another body corporate that is related to the company if the inspector considers that the results of the...

(1) In conducting an investigation under this Division, an inspector shall comply with a direction given to the inspector by the Attorney-General under this section. (2) The Attorney General may give...

(1) The Attorney General may direct an inspector appointed by the Attorney General to conduct an investigation to take no further action in the investigation. (2) The Attorney General may give a...

(1) An inspector appointed by the Attorney General may resign by notice givento the Attorney General. (2) The Attorney General may revoke the appointment of an inspector by notice given to the...

(1) If an inspector appointed by the Attorney General resigns or dies or theinspector’s appointment is revoked, the Attorney General may appoint one or more competent inspectors to continue the...

(1) This section applies to— (a) each officer and agent of the company in relation to which the inspector has been appointed by the Attorney General and, if the investigation extends to a body...

(1) If a person to whom section 806 applies— (a) refuses to produce to an inspector a document that the inspector has, under that section, required the person to produce; or (b) refuses to answer a...

(1) If an inspector appointed by the Attorney General believes it necessary for the purpose of the investigation that a person whom the inspector has no power to examine on oath should be so examined,...

(1) An inspector appointed by the Attorney General— (a) may (and if so directed by the Attorney General, shall) make interim reports to the Attorney General about the progress of the investigation;...

(1) If it appears to the Attorney General that a person has, in relation to the company or to any other body corporate whose affairs have been investigated under this Division, committed an offence...

(1) If satisfied that there is good reason to investigate the ownership of securities of a company and that is unnecessary to appoint an inspector for the purpose, the Attorney General may require any...

(1) On being satisfied, in relation to an investigation under either section 800 or 811, that there is difficulty in ascertaining the relevant facts about particular securities (whether issued or to...

(1) A copy of any report of an inspector appointed under this Part, certified bythe Attorney General to be a true copy, is admissible in all legal proceedings as evidence of the opinion of the...

(1) If, from a report made under section 797 or 809, the Attorney Generalconsiders that proceedings ought, in the public interest, to be brought by a body corporate named in the report— (a) for the...

(1) On an application made on oath given by or on behalf of an inspector appointed by the Court or by the Attorney-General, a magistrate may issue a warrant under this section if satisfied that there...

(1) A person who makes a relevant disclosure is not, only because of that disclosure, liable in proceedings relating to a breach of an obligation of confidence. (2) A relevant disclosure is a...

(1) This section applies to information obtained— (a) as a result of a requirement imposed under section 811; or (b) by means of a relevant disclosure under section 816. (2) Information to which...

(1) An officer of a company who— (a) destroys, mutilates or falsifies, or is complicit in the destruction, mutilation or falsification of a document affecting, or relating to the company's property...

A person who, in purported compliance with a requirement under section 811 to provide information— (a) provides information that the person knows to be false in a material particular;...

(1) This section applies to information obtained under Division 1 or 2. (2) The Attorney General may— (a) disclose information to which this section applies to any person to whom, or for any purpose...

(1) Nothing in this Part compels a person to disclose to the Attorney General or to an inspector appointed under this Part information in respect of which in an action in the Court a claim to legal...

(1) An answer given by a person to a question put to the person by the inspectorfor the purposes of an investigation conducted under this Part can be used in evidence in legal proceedings against the...

(1) This Part applies to a foreign company that is carrying on business, or hasat any time carried on business, in Kenya except provided by subsection (2). (2) Section 787 and section 800 to 811 do...

(1) If an offence under this Part is committed by a body corporate, each officer of the body who is in default also commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding that which...

(1) The following restrictions apply to securities that are subject to an order made by the Attorney General under section 812 or an order of the Court made under 827— (a) any transfer of the...

(1) Subject to the terms of any directions given, or any conditions imposed, under section 812 or 827, a person who— (a) exercises, or purports to exercise, a right to dispose of securities that, to...

(1) If an order makes securities of a company subject to the restrictions contained in this Division, any person claiming to be aggrieved by the order may apply to the Court for an order under...

(1) If securities are sold in accordance with an order of the Court made undersection 828, the seller of the securities shall pay the proceeds of sale (less the costs of the sale) into Court for the...

Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Part, this Part applies in relation to the lodgement of a document with, or the provision of information to, the Registrar in electronic form as it...

This Part applies to foreign companies except in so far as the context otherwise requires and a reference in this Part to a company includes a foreign company.

(1) There is established the Office of the Registrar of Companies. (2) If the office of Registrar becomes vacant, the Cabinet Secretary shall appoint a suitably qualified person to fill the...

(1) The Register of Companies referred to in section 3 of the repealed Act is continued. (2) The Registrar continues to be responsible for keeping the Register of Companies. (3) The Register...

The Registrar is required to have an official seal for the authentication of documents in connection with the performance of the Registrar’s functions.

(1) The regulations may require the payment to the Registrar of fees in respect of— (a) the performance of any of the Registrar's functions; or (b) the provision by the Registrar of services or...

(1) The Registrar shall publish in the Gazette or in accordance with section 875, notice of the issue by the Registrar of every certificate of incorporation issued to a company on its incorporation or...

(1) The Registrar shall, if requested to do so by a person and on paymentof the prescribed fee (if any), provide the person with a copy of a certificate of incorporation of any specified...

(1) The Registrar shall allocate to every company a registered number, to becalled the company’s registered number that complies with subsection (2). (2) A company's registered number complies with...

(1) The Registrar shall allocate to every foreign company registered under thisAct a unique number, to be called the company's registered number. (2) The Registrar shall ensure that the number...

(1) The Registrar shall specify the form, authentication and manner of lodgement of documents required or permitted to be lodged with the Registrar for registration under this or any other...

(1) The regulations may require documents, or documents of a specified class,that are required to be lodged with the Registrar for registration to be lodged by electronic means. (2) A requirement to...