Section 675 of Insolvency Act CAP 53: Offences under this Division

In this Part— "deliver", in relation to documents or other property, includes surrender and transfer; "relevant office-holder" means— (a) in relation to a company under administration, the...

(1) This section applies to a company that is under administration or in liquidation. (2) If a person has control over money, documents or other property to which the company appears to be entitled,...

(1) In this section, “relevant office holder", in relation to a company, also includes the Official Receiver even if not the liquidator. (2) This section applies to the following persons— (a) those...

(1) In this section, "relevant office holder", in relation to a company, includes the Official Receiver even if not the liquidator. (2) On the application of the relevant office-holder, the Court may...

(1) If, after considering the evidence obtained under section 680 or this section, it appears to the Court that a person has control over property of the company, the Court may, on the application of...

(1) This section applies to a company that is under administration or in liquidation. (2) In this section, "relevant time" has the meaning given by section 684. (3) On forming the reasonable belief...

(1) In this section, "relevant time" has the meaning given by section 684. (2) If of the view that a company has at a relevant time given a preference to a person, the relevant office-holder may...

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the time at which a company enters into a transaction at an undervalue is a relevant time if the transaction is entered into at a time— (a) during the two years...

(1) An order under section 682 or 683 with respect to a transaction or preference entered into or given by a company may, subject to subsection ( 2)— (a) require property transferred as part of the...

(1) This section applies to a transaction to which a company is, or has been, a party to a transaction for, or involving, the provision of credit to the company. (2) The relevant office-holder may...

(1) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a floating charge on the company's undertaking or property created at a relevant time is invalid except to the extent of the aggregate of— (a) an...

(1) This section applies to a company that is under administration or in liquidation. (2) A lien or other right to retain possession of any of the documents of the company is unenforceable to the...

(1) This section applies to a company— (a) that is under administration or in liquidation; or (b) in respect of which a moratorium or voluntary arrangement under Part IX has effect. (2) In this...

(1) In this section, "administrative receiver", in relation to a company, means— (a) a receiver or manager of the whole (or substantially the whole) of the company's property appointed by or on...

(1) If a company has failed to comply with a requirement under this Act— (a) to lodge a document with the Registrar for registration; or (b) to give notice to the Registrar of any matter, the...

(1) The Official Receiver, or a person who claims to have been, to be or to be about to be adversely affected— (a) by the past or continuing conduct of, or by a threat to engage in conduct made by, a...

(1) If a provision of this Act provides that an officer of a company who is in default commits an offence, the officer commits the offence only if the officer— (a) authorises or...

(1) If— (a) a body corporate commits an offence to which this section applies; and (b) the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to...

(1) In any proceedings (whether under this Act or any other written law)— (a) a statement of the financial position or affairs of a bankrupt, company or other person prepared for the purpose of any...

(1) A proceeding under this Act may not be invalidated or set aside for a defect in a step that is required to be taken as part of, or in connection with, the proceeding, unless a person is...

(1) The Rules Committee, with the addition of the Official Receiver, may make rules providing for either or both of the following— (a) the procedure of the Court under this Act; (b) appeals to the...

The Court may review, rescind, or vary any order of the Court under this Act.

(1) Any person dissatisfied with a decision of the Court under this Act may appeal to the Court of Appeal against the decision. (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, a notice of...

(1) If an appeal has been lodged against a bankruptcy order or an order for the liquidation or administration of a company, any interested person may apply to the Court or the Court of Appeal for an...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary shall, as and when necessary, appoint suitably qualified persons to the positions of— (a) Official Receiver; and (b) one or more Deputy Official Receivers. (2) The...

A Deputy Official Receiver may act for, or in the place of, the Official Receiver or another Deputy Official Receiver, and in that capacity has all the authority and powers of the Official Receiver or...

(1) The Official Receiver is, for the purpose of performing the functions imposed and exercising the powers to be conferred on the Official Receiver by or under this or any other Act, incorporated as...

(1) The office of Official Receiver or Deputy Official Receiver becomes vacant if— (a) the person dies; (b) the person's term of office expires without the person being reappointed; (c) the person...

Neither the Official Receiver nor a Deputy Official Receiver is liable in civil proceedings for any act that the Official Receiver or Deputy Official Receiver has done or omitted to do for the purpose...

(1) The Official Receiver and Deputy Official Receivers may charge fees for performing their official functions, and exercising their official powers, at the rates (if any) prescribed by the...

(1) The insolvency regulations may fix or prescribe the amount or rates of fees chargeable under section 706. (2) Those regulations may, for example, prescribe— (a) hourly or other...

(1) The Official Receiver shall establish in the Central Bank of Kenya an account, to be called the "Insolvency Services Account". (2) The Official Receiver shall pay into the Insolvency Services...

The Official Receiver shall from time to time pay into the Consolidated Fund out of the Insolvency Services Account so much of the amounts standing to the credit of that Account as...

This Division applies to a public register established under section 47, 337 or 350.

(1) The Official Receiver shall ensure that all public registers are available for access and inspection by members of the public during the Official Receiver's ordinary business hours. (2) However,...

(1) The public register kept under section 47 has— (a) the purpose of providing information about bankrupts and discharged bankrupts; and (b) the further purposes specified in subsection...

(1) The Official Receiver shall ensure that the public registers contain the prescribed information in respect of the following persons— (a) a person who is or has been bankrupt; (b) a person who is...

(1) This section applies to a person who— (a) is or has been bankrupt on two or more occasions; or (b) is or has been both bankrupt and discharged from the no asset procedure under section...

(1) The public register kept under section 47 may contain any or all of the documents set out in section 101 in respect of a bankrupt or former bankrupt. (2) The Official Receiver shall ensure that a...

(1) The Official Receiver may omit, remove, or restrict access to information contained in a public register in respect of a person if the Official Receiver considers that the disclosure of the...

(1) A person may inspect the public registers only in accordance with this Act and such provisions (if any) of the insolvency regulations as relate to the inspection of the public registers. (2) The...

Nothing in this Division prevents the use of information contained in the public registers for statistical or research purposes if the information— (a) does not identify anyone; and (b) is not...

Neither the Government nor the Official Receiver may be sued for any act or omission in relation to the maintenance of a public register under this Division done or omitted to be done in good faith...

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency) has the force of law in Kenya in the form set out in the Fifth Schedule.

(1) A body corporate that is a creditor or debenture-holder may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise a person or persons to act as its representative or...

(1) As soon as practicable after the Court has made an order under a provision of this Act, the Registrar of the Court shall publish on the Court's website a copy of the order or a summary of its...

(1) If an interim trustee or bankruptcy trustee takes a prescribed step in the bankruptcy process relating a bankrupt, that trustee shall, by notice, give to all creditors of the bankrupt of whom that...

(1) A creditor may request information from a relevant insolvency practitioner and the insolvency practitioner shall provide the information within— (a) five business days after receiving the request;...

Stamp duty is not payable in respect of— (a) any transfer or other document relating solely to property that is comprised in a bankrupt's estate and that, after the execution of that document, is or...

(1) If a bankruptcy order has been made, the Court may, from time to time, on the application of the Official Receiver or of the bankruptcy trustee in respect of the bankrupt's estate, order Posta...