Act and Laws in Kenya

(1) If a trade dispute is not resolved after conciliation, a party to the dispute may refer it to the Industrial Court in accordance with the rules of the Industrial Court. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), if a trade dispute― (a) is one in respect of which a party may call a...

A trade union may refer a dispute to the Industrial Court as a matter of urgency if the dispute concerns― (a) the recognition of a trade union in accordance with section 62; or (b) a redundancy where - (i) the trade union has already referred the dispute for conciliation under section 62(4);...

The Arbitration Act shall not apply to any proceedings before the Industrial Court.

A person may participate in a strike or lock-out if― (a) the trade dispute that forms the subject of the strike or lock-out concerns terms and conditions of employment or the recognition of a trade union; (b) the trade dispute is unresolved after conciliation- (i) under this Act; or (ii) as...

(1) A party to a dispute that has received notice of a strike or lock-out may apply to the Industrial Court to prohibit the strike or lockout as a matter of urgency if – (a) the strike or lock-out is prohibited under this Part; or (b) the party that issued the notice has failed to participate in...

(1) No person shall take part in a strike or lock-out or in any conduct in contemplation of a strike or lock-out if― (a) any law, court award or a collective agreement or recognition agreement binding on that person prohibits a strike or lock-out in respect of the issue in dispute; (b) the subject...

(1) In this Part, a “protected strike” means a strike that complies with the provisions of this Part and “protected lock-out” means a lock-out that complies with the provisions of this Part. (2) A person does not commit a breach of contract or a tort by taking part in― (a) a protected strike or a...

(1) An employee who takes part in, calls, instigates or incites others to take part in a strike that is not in compliance with this Act is deemed to have breached the employee’s contract and― (a) is liable to disciplinary action; and (b) is not entitled to any payment or any other benefit under...

(1) In this Part “essential services” means a service the interruption of which would probably endanger the life of a person or health of the population or any part of the population. (2) The Minister, after consultation with the Board– (a) shall from time to time, amend the list of essential...

(1) The Industrial Court has jurisdiction in respect of any prosecution for an offence under this Act. (2) A trade union, employers’ organisation or federation which is convicted for an offence under this Act shall be liable to pay a fine not exceeding forty thousand shillings. (3) A person who...

The Minister may, after consultations with the Board, make regulations on any matter for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act.

(1) The Trade Union's Act and the Trade Disputes Act are repealed. (2) Transitional provisions dealing with the transition from the Trade Unions Act and the Trade Disputes Act to this Act are contained in Fifth Schedule.

This Act may be cited as the Limitation of Actions Act.

(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires— “arbitration” means an arbitration on a submission or under a written law; “assurance” includes conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease, mortgage and charge and any other disposition of land otherwise than by will or intestacy;...

This Part is subject to Part III of this Act, which provides for the extension of the periods of limitation in the case of disability, acknowledgement, part payment, fraud, mistake and ignorance of material facts.

(1) The following actions may not be brought after the end of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued— (a) actions founded on contract; (b) actions to enforce a recognizance; (c) actions to enforce an award; (d) actions to recover a sum recoverable by virtue of a written...

(1) Where under section 3 of the Law Reform Act (Cap. 26) a tortfeasor (in this section referred to as the first tortfeasor) becomes entitled after the commencement of this Act to a right to recover contribution in respect of any damage from another tortfeasor, an action to recover contribution by...

(1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or wrongful detention of movable property has accrued to any person and, before he recovers possession of the property, a further conversion or wrongful detention takes place, no action may be brought in respect of the further conversion or...

An action may not be brought by any person to recover land after the end of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or, if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims, to that person.

An action may not be brought, and distress may not be made, to recover arrears of rent, or damages in respect thereof, after the end of six years from the date on which the arrears became due.

(1) Where the person bringing an action to recover land, or some person through whom he claims, has been in possession of the land, and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession, the right of action accrues on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance....

(1) Subject to this section, where a person brings an action to recover land, and the estate or interest claimed was an estate or interest in reversion or any other future estate or interest and no person has taken possession of the land by virtue of the estate or interest claimed, the right of...

A right of action to recover land by virtue of a forfeiture or breach of condition accrues on the date on which the liability to forfeiture was incurred or the condition broken: Provided that, if such a right has accrued to a person entitled to an estate or interest in reversion and the land was...

(1) A tenancy at will is taken to be determined at the end of one year from its commencement, unless it has previously been determined, and accordingly the right of action of the person entitled to the land subject to the tenancy accrues on the date of such determination. (2) A tenancy from year...

(1) A right of action to recover land does not accrue unless the land is in the possession of some person in whose favour the period of limitation can run (which possession is in this Act referred to as adverse possession), and, where under sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 of this Act a right of action to...

Where a mortgagee of land has been in possession, as mortgagee, of any of the mortgaged land for a period of twelve years, no action to redeem the land of which the mortgagee has been so in possession may thereafter be brought by the mortgagor or any person claiming through him.

For the purposes of this Act, no person is taken to have been in possession of any land by reason only of his having made a formal entry thereon, and no continual or other claim upon or near any land preserves any right of action to recover the land.

For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to actions for the recovery of land, an administrator of the estate of a deceased person is taken to claim as if there had been no interval of time between the death of the deceased person and the grant of the letters of administration.

Subject to section 18 of this Act, at the expiration of the period prescribed by this Act for a person to bring an action to recover land (including a redemption action), the title of that person to the land is extinguished.

(1) Subject to section 20(1) of this Act, this Act applies to equitable interests in land, including interests in the proceeds of the sale of land held upon trust for sale, in like manner as it applies to legal estates, and accordingly a right to action to recover the land, for the purposes of this...