Section 32A of The Banking Act CAP 488: Vetting of officials

The Central Bank may upon receipt of a report under section 32(5)— (a) require changes to the legal or management structure of a group or banking group if it determines that such structures in their...

(1) If, at any time, the Central Bank has reason to believe that— (a) the business of an institution is being conducted in a manner contrary to or not in compliance with the requirements of this Act...

Where an auditor's report under section 24(4) or an inspection report under this Part reveals that an institution conducts its business in a manner contrary to the provisions of this Act, or in any...

(1) The Central Bank shall prescribe, in regulations, conditions on deposits or withdrawals by customers in banks and financial institution. (2) The Central Bank shall within thirty days of coming...

(1) Pursuant to sections 2A, 36A, 36B and 36C of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act (Cap. 59A), the Central Bank shall regulate, supervise and enforce compliance for anti-money...

(1) No institution, director, officer, employer, agent or any other person shall violate or fail to comply with any provision of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act (Cap. 59A), or any...

(1) This section applies, and the powers conferred by subsection (2) may be exercised, in the following circumstances— (a) if the institution fails to meet any financial obligation, when it falls due...

(1) An institution may, with the approval of the Central Bank, voluntarily liquidate itself if it is able to meet all its liabilities. (2) An application for the Central Bank’s approval for the...

(1) If satisfied on reasonable grounds that an institution has become insolvent, the Central Bank may appoint the Board to be a liquidator of the institution. (2) Such an appointment has the same...

(1) The Central Bank may appoint the Board as administrator to manage to manage the institution's affairs and property, but only it is satisfied that— (a) the institution is or is, likely to become...

(1) Any interested person who is dissatisfied with the exercise by the Board of a power conferred on it by section 35 may apply to the High Court for an order or orders under subsection (2). (2) On...

(1) A person who— (a) refuses or fails to comply with a requirement of a liquidator appointed under section 35, or of an administrator appointed under section 35B, that is applicable to the person,...

(1) The liquidator may assign the assets or liabilities of an institution or of a customer under this Act, the Insolvency Act (Cap. 53), or under any other written law to third parties for the benefit...

(1) The Central Bank may, in writing and subject to such conditions as the Central Bank may consider necessary, authorize a bank or a financial institution incorporated outside Kenya which does not...

No institution shall increase its rate of banking or other charges except with the prior approval of the Cabinet Secretary.

(1) An institution shall be limited in what it may recover from a debtor with respect to a nonperforming loan to the maximum amount under subsection (2). (2) The maximum amount referred to in...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary shall consult with the Central Bank in the exercise of his functions under this Act. (2) Where the approval of the Cabinet Secretary is required under any provision of this...

(1) Where the Cabinet Secretary considers that it is in the public interest that banks, or a particular bank, or a particular branch of a bank, should remain closed on a day which is not a public...

(1) The High Court, on application made ex parte by the Cabinet Secretary or, where a manager or liquidator has been appointed by the Central Bank, may, if it considers it to be in the interests of...

(1) A person who is an officer of an institution shall cease to hold office and shall not thereafter be eligible to hold office in any institution if he— (a) becomes bankrupt or suspends payment or...

Where any institution or other person contravenes any of the provisions of this Act— (a) if it is a body corporate, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred...

(1) Any officer of an institution who— (a) fails to take all reasonable steps to secure the compliance of the institution with this Act; or (b) fails to take all reasonable steps to secure the...

(1) Any institution or other person who issues any advertisement, brochure, circular or other document inviting any person to make a deposit which— (a) falsely represents that he is authorized to...

(1) For the avoidance of doubt, no contravention of the provisions of this Act or the Central Bank of Kenya Act (Cap. 491) shall affect or invalidate in any way any contractual obligation between an...

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where there is a conflict between the provisions of this Act and the provisions of any other written law applicable to an institution licensed under this Act, the...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, exempt an institution from the provisions of section 12, 13 or 14 subject to such conditions as the Cabinet Secretary considers necessary. (2)...

(1) This Act does not apply to— (a) the Kenya Post Office Savings Bank established under the Kenya Post Office Savings Bank Act (Cap. 493B); (b) the Agricultural Finance Corporation established...

All persons subject to this Act shall enjoy all rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Constitution unless limited to the extent specified in Article 24 of the Constitution, this Act or any...

(1) The right to privacy guaranteed under Article 31 of the Constitution is hereby limited under Article 24 of the Constitution only to the nature and extent contemplated under subsection (2). (2)...

(1) The Central Bank may make regulations generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Central Bank may, in...

(1) The Banking Act (No. 56 of 1968) is repealed. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), whereupon the commencement of this Act any bank or financial institution is licensed to transact banking business...

The several written laws specified in the first column of the Second Schedule are amended, in relation to the provisions thereof specified in the second column, in the manner specified in the third...