Section 703 of Insolvency Act CAP 53: Incorporation of Official Receiver as a corporation sole

(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...

(1) In this section— (a) "communications services" do not include electronic communications services to the extent that they are used to broadcast or otherwise transmit programme services;...

(1) For the purposes of any proceedings against a debtor or bankrupt under Part III (including a public examination of a bankrupt), the Court may, on the application of the Official Receiver or the...

Not later than three months after the end of 2015 and each subsequent calendar year, the Cabinet Secretary shall prepare a report about the operation of this Act during that year and arrange for a...

(1) A document that is required or permitted by or under this Act to be served on, or given to, a natural person may be served on, or given to, the person personally or by means of a letter addressed...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make insolvency regulations prescribing matters— (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by insolvency regulations; or (b) necessary or convenient to be...

This Act binds the Government.

(1) The provisions of the Bankruptcy Act (Cap. 53) are repealed on such date or such different dates as the Cabinet Secretary may appoint by notice published in the Gazette. (2) When bringing...

(1) In this section— "the commencement" means the coming into operation of Parts III to V; "past event" means any of the following that has occurred before the commencement— (a) issuing a bankruptcy...

(1) In this section— “the commencement" means the coming into operation of Parts VI to X; "past event" means any of the following that has occurred before the commencement: (a) the passing by the...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make regulations containing provisions of a savings or transitional nature relating to the transition from the application of the repealed Bankruptcy Act and the relevant...