Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Power to cancel registration
If the registration of any document has been obtained by fraud, mistake or misrepresentation, or the document is forged, or the do…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
When Registrar may refuse to register
If any of the persons by whom the document purports to be executed denies its execution, or if any such person appears to the regi…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
When Registrar must register
If all the persons executing the document shall appear personally before the registrar and satisfy him that they are the persons t…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Registrar to satisfy himself as to genuineness
The registrar shall take such steps to satisfy himself as to the identity of the person presenting a document for registration, an…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Person to present document
Every document presented for registration shall be presented by the party executing or claiming an interest under it or his agent…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Registry at which document to be registered
(1) Any document relating to immovable property situate in a place other than the Coast Province shall be registrable only in the…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Penalties for non-registration
If any such document is not registered within the time prescribed, the person in whose favour the document is made, or his success…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Document to be registered within two months of execution
Every document the registration whereof is compulsory shall be registered within two months after its execution, and if executed o…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Property must be identified
No non-testamentary document relating to immovable property shall be accepted for registration unless it contains a description of…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
When registrar may refuse to register
(1) The registrar may refuse to accept for registration any document in which any interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration app…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
As to documents not written in specified languages
If any document duly presented for registration is not written in English, Arabic, Kiswahili or Gujerati, or such other language a…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Other documents may be registered
Any other document may be registered, at the option of the person holding the same: Provided that a registrar may refuse to regist…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Documents to be registered
All documents conferring, or purporting to confer, declare, limit or extinguish any right, title or interest, whether vested or co…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Registries
A registry shall be kept at Nairobi for the whole of Kenya except the Coast Province, and shall be known as the Principal Registry…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Interpretation
In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires— “book” includes a portion of a book, and also any number of sheets conne…
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Registration of Documents Act CAP 285▤
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Registration of Documents Act
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