Section 457 of Insolvency Act CAP 53: Power to arrest absconding contributory

Powers conferred on the Court by this Part are in addition to any existing powers to bring legal proceedings against a contributory or debtor of the company, or the assets of a contributory or debtor,...

(1) The insolvency regulations may enable or require all or any of the functions imposed or powers conferred on the Court with respect to the matters specified in subsection (2) to be performed or...

(1) The liquidator of a company is in all documents and communications relating to the liquidation of the company to be referred to— (a) if a person other than the Official Receiver is liquidator, as...

A person who gives, or agrees or offers to give, to any member or creditor of a company any valuable consideration with a view to obtaining the person's own appointment or nomination, or to obtaining...

(1) This section has effect if a company is in voluntary liquidation, but subject to section 463 (liquidator's functions, creditors' voluntary liquidation) in the case of a creditor's voluntary...

(1) If, in the case of a creditors' voluntary liquidation, a liquidator has been nominated by the company, the powers conferred on the liquidator by section 462 may not be exercised, except with...

(1) If a company is being liquidated by the Court, the liquidator may— (a) with the approval of the Court or the liquidation committee (if there is one), exercise any of the powers specified in Parts...

(1) If a company is being liquidated by the Court, the liquidator may convene general meetings of the creditors or contributories for the purpose of ascertaining their wishes. (2) The liquidator...

(1) If a liquidator has— (a) in lodging, delivering or making a return, account or other document— (i) failed to prepare, make or lodge a return, account or other document as required by a...

(1) This section applies to the removal from office and vacation of office of the liquidator of a company that is in voluntary liquidation. (2) Subject to subsection (2), a liquidator may be removed...

(1) This section applies with respect to the removal from office and vacation of office of— (a) the liquidator of a company that being liquidated by the Court; or (b) a provisional liquidator. (2) A...

(1) This section applies with respect to the release of the liquidator of a company that is in voluntary liquidation. (2) A person who has ceased to be a liquidator is entitled to be released from...

(1) This section applies with respect to the release of the liquidator of a company that is in liquidation by the Court, or of a provisional liquidator. (2) On ceasing to be liquidator and being...

(1) The liquidator of a company that is in liquidation shall distribute the assets of the company available for the payment of creditors in accordance with the Second Schedule. (2) Subsection (1) is...

(1) This section applies to a company that is being liquidated by the Court. (2) If a person (whether or not a landlord or person entitled to rent) has distrained on the property of the company...

(1) The expenses of liquidating a company, so far as the assets of the company available for payment of general creditors are insufficient to meet those expenses, have priority over any claims to...

(1) This section applies to a company in respect of which a floating charge relates to its property— (a) if the company is in liquidation or under administration; or (b) if a provisional liquidator...

(1) If a company is in liquidation or a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of the company, the Court may, on an application made under subsection (2), appoint a person to be the special...

(1) The liquidator may, by the giving such notice as is prescribed by the insolvency regulations, disclaim any onerous property and may do so even if the liquidator has taken control of it, tries to...

(1) The disclaimer under section 476 of any property comprising a leasehold interest does not take effect unless a copy of the disclaimer has been served on every person claiming under the company as...

(1) If, as a result of the disclaimer under section 476 of land subject to a rentcharge, the land vests by operation of law in a person, the person is not subject to any liability in respect of...

(1) This section and section 480 apply to property that the liquidator has disclaimed in accordance with section 476. (2) An application to the Court for an order under subsection (3) may be made...

(1) The Court may not make an order under section 479 vesting a leasehold interest in a person claiming under the company as underlessee or mortgagee except on terms making the person— (a) subject to...

(1) If— (a) a creditor— (i) has issued execution against the goods or land of a company; or (ii) has attached any debt due to it; and (b) the company is subsequently liquidated, the creditor is...

(1) This section applies if— (a) a company's goods are taken in execution; and (b) before their sale or the completion of the execution (whether by the receipt or recovery of the full amount of the...

(1) A person who is, as against the liquidator, entitled to the benefit or subject to the burden of a contract made with the company, may make an application for an order under subsection (2). (2) On...

(1) On the liquidation of a company (whether by the Court or voluntarily), the liquidator may, in accordance with this section, make any payment that the company has, before the commencement of the...

(1) A company that is in liquidation shall ensure that the following documents state that the company is in liquidation: (a) every invoice, order for goods or services, business letter or order form...

(1) In a company liquidation, interest is payable in accordance with this section on any debt proved in the liquidation, including so much of any such debt as represents interest on the...

(1) If a company is in liquidation, the following documents are exempt from stamp duty— (a) every transfer relating solely to freehold or leasehold property, or to any interest in, any real or...

When a company is in liquidation, all records of the company and of the liquidator are (as between the contributories of the company) evidence of the truth of all matters purporting to be recorded in...

(1) If the liquidation of a company is not completed within twelve months after its commencement, the liquidator shall, at such intervals as are prescribed by the insolvency regulations and until the...

If a resolution is passed at an adjourned meeting of a company's creditors or contributories, the resolution is for all purposes taken to have been passed on the date on which it was in fact passed,...

(1) The Court may— (a) as to all matters relating to the liquidation of a company, have regard to the wishes of the creditors or contributories (as proved to it by any sufficient evidence); and...

In all proceedings under this Part, all courts and tribunals, all judges and persons acting judicially, and all officers of a court or tribunal, or employed in enforcing the process of a court or...

(1) An affidavit required to be sworn under or for the purposes of this Part may be sworn in Kenya— (a) before any court, tribunal, judge or person lawfully authorised to take and receive affidavits;...

(1) This section applies to a company in voluntary liquidation if the liquidator has sent to the Registrar the liquidator's final account and return in accordance with section 402 or 414. (2) As soon...

(1) This section applies when an order for the liquidation of a company has been made by the Court and the Official Receiver is the liquidator of the company. (2) On being satisfied— (a) that the...

(1) If a notice has been given in accordance with section 495(3), the Official Receiver or any creditor or contributory of the company may apply to the Court for directions under this...

(1) This section applies to a notice that is— (a) served for the purposes of section 468(9); or (b) from the Official Receiver that the liquidation of a company by the Court is complete. (2) As...

(1) This section applies in relation to a company— (a) in respect of which the Court has made a liquidation order; or (b) that has passed a resolution for the voluntary liquidation of the...

(1) This section applies in relation to a company— (a) in respect of which the Court has made a liquidation order; or (b) that has passed a resolution for the voluntary liquidation of the...

(1) This section applies in relation to a company that is in liquidation, whether voluntary or by the Court. (2) An officer or former officer of the company commits an offence if the officer or...

(1) This section applies in relation to a company that is in liquidation, whether voluntary or by the Court. (2) An officer or contributory of the company commits an offence if, during the...

(1) This section applies to a company that is in liquidation, whether voluntary or by the Court. (2) An officer or former officer of the company commits an offence if, during the liquidation, the...

(1) This section applies to a company that is in liquidation, whether voluntary or by the Court. (2) An officer or former officer of the company commits an offence if— (a) the officer or former...

(1) This section applies to the following persons— (a) an officer or former officer of a company that is in liquidation (whether by the Court or voluntarily); (b) a person who is or has acted as the...

(1) A liquidator of a company may make an application to the Court to make an order under subsection (2) if— (a) in the course of the liquidation of the company, the liquidator forms the view that a...

(1) This section applies— (a) to a company that is in insolvent liquidation; and (b) to a person who, at a time before the commencement of the liquidation, was an officer of the company. (2) For...

(1) On the hearing of an application under section 505 or 506, the liquidator may personally give evidence or call witnesses. (2) If the Court makes an order under section 505 or 506, it may make...