Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Power of Cabinet Secretary to make savings and transitional regulations
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make regulations containing provisions of a savings or transitional nature relating to the transitio…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Transitional provisions: Winding up and insolvency of companies
(1) In this section— “the commencement" means the coming into operation of Parts VI to X; "past event" means any of the following…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Transitional provisions: insolvency of natural persons
(1) In this section— "the commencement" means the coming into operation of Parts III to V; "past event" means any of the following…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Repeal of Bankruptcy Act and revocation of subsidiary legislation (Cap. 53, sub. leg)
(1) The provisions of the Bankruptcy Act (Cap. 53) are repealed on such date or such different dates as the Cabinet Secretary may…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Act to bind the Government
This Act binds the Government.
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Power of Cabinet Secretary to make insolvency regulations for the purposes of this Act
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make insolvency regulations prescribing matters— (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescri…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Service of documents, etc., for the purposes of this Act
(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,…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Cabinet Secretary to prepare annual report
Not later than three months after the end of 2015 and each subsequent calendar year, the Cabinet Secretary shall prepare a report…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Order for production of documents by Kenya Revenue Authority
(1) For the purposes of any proceedings against a debtor or bankrupt under Part III (including a public examination of a bankrupt)…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Supply of utility services to bankrupts and others
(1) In this section— (a) "communications services" do not include electronic communications services to the extent that they are u…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Re-direction of bankrupt's correspondence
(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 b…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Certain transactions relating to bankrupt's estate exempt from stamp duty
Stamp duty is not payable in respect of— (a) any transfer or other document relating solely to property that is comprised in a ban…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Information by insolvency practitioner
(1) A creditor may request information from a relevant insolvency practitioner and the insolvency practitioner shall provide the i…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Official Receiver, bankruptcy trustees, liquidators and administrators to notify creditors of prescribed steps in the insolvency process
(1) If an interim trustee or bankruptcy trustee takes a prescribed step in the bankruptcy process relating a bankrupt, that truste…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Courts, Official Receiver and others to publish orders and notices on their respective websites
(1) As soon as practicable after the Court has made an order under a provision of this Act, the Registrar of the Court shall publi…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Representation of bodies corporate at meetings
(1) A body corporate that is a creditor or debenture-holder may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise a…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Cross border insolvency
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency) has the force of law in Kenya in t…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Government and Official Receiver not liable for certain acts and omissions
Neither the Government nor the Official Receiver may be sued for any act or omission in relation to the maintenance of a public re…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Information contained in public registers may be used for statistical or research purposes
Nothing in this Division prevents the use of information contained in the public registers for statistical or research purposes if…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Right of members of public to inspect registers
(1) A person may inspect the public registers only in accordance with this Act and such provisions (if any) of the insolvency regu…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
When Official Receiver may omit, remove, restrict access to, or amend, information contained in a public register
(1) The Official Receiver may omit, remove, or restrict access to information contained in a public register in respect of a perso…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Restricted information that may be included in public register relating to bankruptcies
(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 bankr…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
Information kept indefinitely on public register after multiple insolvency events
(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 bankrup…
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Insolvency Act CAP 53▤
General information to be included in public registers
(1) The Official Receiver shall ensure that the public registers contain the prescribed information in respect of the following pe…
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