Act and Laws in Kenya

(1) Where any vehicle is found in use on a road in contravention of the provisions of this Act, or where any vehicle has been left on any road or other public place in such circumstances as to make it appear that such vehicle has been abandoned or should be removed to a place of safety, or where any...

It shall be lawful for any police officer to detain at a police station or other place of safety any vehicle which has been removed from a road or other public place under section 106 until such inquiries have been made by the police as they may think necessary in the circumstances of the case.

(1) If in any proceedings under this Act any question arises as to whether a vehicle does or does not comply with any provisions of this Act, the certificate of an inspector to the effect that he has examined the vehicle and as to the result of his examination may be read as evidence although the...

In any proceedings under this Act, an extract from the records of registered vehicles, certified under the hand of a licensing officer, may be received in evidence although the licensing officer is not called as a witness, and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein set forth.

The owner of any vehicle and any other person who is able to provide such information shall, as soon as reasonably possible and in any case within seven days after having received a verbal or written request for such information, give such information as he may be required by a police officer to...

(1) Any person who employs any other person to drive a motor vehicle shallkeep a written record of the name, address and driving licence number of such other person. (2) Such record shall be preserved for a period of six months after the datewhen such person ceases to be employed as a driver, and...

Any person to whom any application is made for anything to be done under this Act may require any facts stated in the information to be verified to his satisfaction.

Any person who makes any statement which to his knowledge is false or in any respect misleading in connexion with any information lawfully demanded or required under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not...

(1) Any person who fraudulently imitates, alters, mutilates, destroys or uses, or fraudulently lends or allows to be used by any other person, any licence, document, plate or mark issued or prescribed under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred...

Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in any Act contained, it shall be lawful for a court to accept the particulars of endorsements on any licence issued in compliance with this Act as prima facie evidence of previous convictions recorded against the holder thereof.

(1) Notwithstanding the requirements of or provisions in any Act contained, it shall be lawful for any police officer to serve, either personally or by registered post, upon any person who is reasonably suspected of having committed any offence in connexion with the driving or use of any vehicle...

(1) The Minister may prescribe— (a) a schedule of minor traffic offences (in this section referred to as "the scheduled minor offences") which may be dealt with and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of this section, and may for the purposes of this section prescribe a statutory maximum...

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person is convicted of an offence specified in the Schedule, the court may, in addition to any penalty, order— (a) that the demerit points specified in that Schedule in relation to the offence be recorded against any license held by that person; and (b) that...

In each police division, the Officer Commanding Police Division shall be responsible for traffic matters within the division and all police officers shall be responsible for traffic matters.

(1) Any person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with theprovisions of this Act, or who acts in contravention of or who fails to comply with the conditions of any licence, order, demand, requirement or direction issued under or in pursuance of this Act, shall be guilty of an...

(1) A municipal council, and a county council, may make by-laws—( a) for controlling taxicabs within its area; (b) for fixing the number of taxicabs permitted in its area; (c) for requiring the installation and providing for the inspection of meters on such taxicabs; (d) for licensing the...

(1) The Minister may make rules prescribing— (a) anything required by this Act to be prescribed; (b) the forms to be used for any purposes of this Act; (c) the weight of goods and passengers, the number of passengers which vehicles may carry, the method by which seating capacity is to be...

The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, suspend, restrict or limit the application of any of the provisions of this Act or of any subsidiary legislation made thereunder, either generally or in respect of any particular class or classes or description of vehicle, for such period and...

(1) This section applies to sections 289, 312 and 766. (2) A company is required to act under a section to which this section applies if it receives a request that complies with the following conditions— (a) it is made by at least one hundred persons; (b) it is authenticated by all the persons...

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a person is connected with a director of a company if the person is— (a) a member of the director's family as defined in section 123; (b) a body corporate with which the director is connected as defined in section 124; (c) a person acting as trustee of a...

For the purposes of this Part, a person is member of a director's family if the person is— (a) the director's spouse; (b) a child or step-child of the director; (c) a child or step-child of the director's spouse who lives with the director and has not reached eighteen years of age; (d) a parent...

(1) In this Part, a director is connected with a body corporate if, but only if, the director and the persons connected with the director together— (a) are interested in shares comprised in the equity share capital of the body corporate of a nominal value equal to at least twenty percent of that...

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a director of a company is taken to control a body corporate if, but only if— (a) the director or any person connected with the director— (i) has an interest in any part of the equity share capital of that body; or (ii) is entitled to exercise or control the...

For the purposes of this Part— (a) bodies corporate are associated if one is a subsidiary of the other or both are subsidiaries of the same body corporate; and (b) companies are associated if one is a subsidiary of the other or both are subsidiaries of the same body corporate.

A reference in this Part to a company’s constitution includes— (a) any resolution or other decision made in accordance with the constitution; and (b) any decision by the members of the company, or a class of members, that is, because of any enactment or rule of law, treated as equivalent to a...

(1) A private company is required to have at least one director. (2) A public company is required to have at least two directors.

(1) A company is required to have at least one director who is a natural person. (2) Subsection (1) is complied with if the office of director is held by a natural person as a corporation sole or otherwise by holding a specified office.

(1) On forming the opinion that a company is in breach of section 128 or 129,the Registrar may give the company a direction in accordance with subsection (2). (2) A direction is in accordance with this subsection if it specifies— (a) the statutory requirement of which the company appears to be in...

(1) A person who has not reached eighteen years of age may not be appointedto be a director of a company. (2) An appointment made in contravention of subsection (1) is void.

(1) A public company shall ensure that at a general meeting of the company amotion for the appointment of two or more persons as directors of the company by a single resolution is moved only if a resolution that it should be so moved has first been agreed to by the meeting without any vote being...