Section 3 of Limited Liability Partnership Act CAP 30: Appointment and functions of Registrar and other officers.

The Registrar may refuse to register an entity (including an existing partnership or a private company) as a limited liability partnership if the Registrar is not satisfied with the information...

(1) The Registrar may require any document to be lodged under this Act to belodged electronically. (2) If a document is required to be lodged with the Registrar electronically, the Registrar may...

(1) A limited liability partnership is an entity formed by being registered underthis Act. (2) On being registered under this Act, a limited liability partnership becomesa body corporate with...

(1) A limited liability partnership is, in its name, capable of— (a) suing and being sued; (b) acquiring, owning, holding and developing or disposing of movable and immovable property;...

The Partnerships Act shall apply to a limited liability partnership except so far as a provision of this Act otherwise expressly provides.

(1) A natural person or a body corporate may be a partner in a limited liabilitypartnership. (2) A trade union is not a body corporate for the purposes of subsection (1).

(1) A limited liability partnership shall be solely obligated to an issue arisingfrom contract, tort or otherwise. (2) A person is not personally liable, directly or indirectly, for an...

(1) A partner of a limited liability partnership is the agent of the limited liability partnership. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a limited liability partnership is not bound by anything done...

(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the mutual rights and duties ofthe partners of a limited liability partnership, and the mutual rights and duties of a limited liability partnership and...

(1) A partner of a limited liability partnership may cease to be a partner— (a) by complying with the requirements of the relevant limited liability partnership agreement; or (b) in the absence of...

(1) This section applies to a limited liability partnership unless otherwise provided for in the relevant limited liability partnership agreement. (2) If a partner of the limited liability...

(1) This section applies to a limited liability partnership unless otherwise provided for in the limited liability partnership agreement. (2) A partner in a limited liability partnership may assign...

Two or more persons associated for carrying on a lawful business with a view to making a profit may, by complying with the registration requirements of this Part, register (the persons) as a limited...

(1) For an entity to be registered as a limited liability partnership under this Act, a statement that complies with subsection (2) shall be lodged with the Registrar. (2) A statement complies with...

(1) As soon as practicable after receiving the statement lodged under section17 and being satisfied that the requirements of that section and section 20 have been complied with, the Registrar...

(1) Without limiting section 18, the Registrar shall refuse to register an entity as a limited liability partnership under this Act if satisfied that— (a) the entity is likely to be operated for an...

(1) The name of a limited liability partnership shall end with—(a) the expression "limited liability partnership"; or (b) the abbreviation "llp" or "LLP". (2) A limited liability partnership that is...

(1) The Registrar may refuse to register a limited liability partnership under a name, or allow a limited liability partnership to change its name to one that in the opinion of the Registrar...

(1) As soon as practicable after deciding to refuse to register an entity as a limited liability partnership under section 16, 17 or 19, the Registrar shall, in writing given to the persons who lodged...

A person who is notified of the decision of the Registrar in accordance with [section 22] may, within thirty days after being so notified, appeal to the Court against the decision appeal to the...

(1) A partnership may convert itself into a limited liability partnership bysatisfying the requirements of the Second Schedule. (2) On conversion— (a) the limited liability partnership to which the...

(1) A private company may convert itself into a limited liability partnership by satisfying the requirements set out in the Third Schedule. (2) When a private company is converted to a limited...

(1) A limited liability partnership is required to have at least two partners. (2) If a limited liability partnership carries on business with only one person as partner for more than two years, that...

(1) A limited liability partnership shall have at least one manager who is a natural person who has attained the age of eighteen years and who is resident in Kenya. (2) A limited liability...

(1) If a limited liability partnership has more than one manager— (a) anything that the manager is required to do under this Act may be done by any one of the managers; and (b) anything that...

(1) A limited liability partnership shall file its annual returns with the Registrar within thirty days of the anniversary of its registration under this Act or any other period as the Registrar may...

(1) A limited liability partnership shall keep such accounting and other records as will— (a) sufficiently explain the transactions and financial position of the partnership; and (b) enable a profit...

(1) A limited liability partnership shall establish and maintain a registered officewithin Kenya to which all communication and notices to the partnership are to be addressed. (2) A document may be...

A limited liability partnership shall keep at its registered office— (a) a notice of registration issued under this Act; (b) a register of the name and address of each partner, manager...

(1) Every limited liability partnership shall keep a register of its beneficial owners. (2) A limited liability partnership shall enter in its register of beneficial owners, information relating to...

(1) Every limited liability partnership shall keep a register of nominee partner sat its registered office. (2) A limited liability partnership shall enter in its register of nominee partners—(a) the...

(1) A limited liability partnership shall ensure that no invoice or other document relating to the partnership business is issued unless it bears— (a) the name and registration number of the...

(1) Whenever a change occurs in any of the details registered in respect ofa limited liability partnership, the partnership shall, within fourteen days after the change, lodge with the Registrar a...

(1) Where the Registrar determines that a limited liability partnership is not carrying on business or is not in operation, the Registrar may send to the registered address of the limited liability...

(1) Where a limited liability partnership is in liquidation and— (a) the Registrar reasonably believes that— (i) the affairs of the limited liability partnership are fully wound up; or (ii) no...

(1) The Registrar may strike off the name of a limited liability partnership from the Register on application by a limited liability partnership. (2) An application under this section shall only be...

An application under section 33C shall not be made if, at any time during the preceding three months, the limited liability partnership has— (a) changed its name; (b) carried on business; (c) made...

(1) An applicant may, at any time before a limited liability partnership’s nameis struck of through a prescribed notice to the Registrar withdraw an application to strike of a limited liability...

(1) An applicant may, by written notice to the Registrar, object an applicationto strike a limited liability partnership’s name off the register at any time before the limited liability partnership’s...

(1) A manager in a limited liability partnership shall be required to keep records specified under this Part for at least seven years after the limited liability partnership has been struck...

(1) The Registrar may restore the name of a limited liability partnership to theRegister if satisfied that the striking off is a result of a mistake of the Registrar. (2) For purposes of subsection...

(1) An application may be made to the Court to restore to the Register a limited liability partnership that has been struck from the Register. (2) An application under subsection (1) may be made...

(1) Where the name of a limited liability partnership is restored to the Register under this Act, the limited liability partnership shall be deemed to be in existence as if its name had not been...

(1) The Registrar shall, subject to this Act, keep a register of limited liability partnerships. (2) The Register shall comprise of— (a) the information relating to limited liability partnerships...

(1) A person in respect of which an entry in a register— (a) has been omitted; (b) is incorrect; or (c) has been included in error, (d) may apply to the Registrar for rectification of the...

(1) If a limited liability partnership becomes insolvent, the provisions of the Insolvency Act, 2015 (No. 18 of 2015), shall apply with respect to the conduct of the receivership or management of the...

(1) A foreign limited liability partnership shall not carry on business in Kenya unless it is registered as a foreign limited liability partnership under this Act. (2) A person who contravenes...

(1) A person seeking to register a foreign limited liability partnership shall, in addition to the requirements under sections 17, 19 and 20 of this Act, make an application to the Registrar— (a) in...

(1) A foreign limited liability partnership shall, for purposes of operating in Kenya, appoint at least one local representative who shall be— (a) a permanent resident in Kenya; or (b) a Kenyan...

A foreign limited liability partnership shall have a registered office in Kenya to which all communications and notices may be addressed.