Maintain a registered office at all times.
Every company must at all times have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed. (Section 46, Companies Act, 2015 (Cap. 486).)
Kenya · Companies & registry
The Companies Act, from registered office to beneficial ownership.
Company-law duties under the Companies Act 2015 — registered office, beneficial ownership registers, BRS lodgement deadlines and the penalties for missing them — published with verified citations to the consolidated Act.
Where this comes from
Published pack rows, not scraped summaries.
The Companies Act (Cap. 486) is one of Kenya's largest statutes, and the Business Registration Service enforces its filing regime — beneficial ownership above all — with daily-accruing penalties. The pack compiles the consolidated Act as at 2024-12-27: 10,640 verified provisions, 388 definitions and 672 powers and permissions.
The KE-CORPORATE-REGISTRY-BRS pack currently publishes 26 published company obligations, 18 forms, 672 powers and permissions. Every published row carries a verified quote span from the consolidated instrument, an explicit review decision, and version history. Published rows are a reviewed subset of the compiled regulatory corpus — depth keeps growing under the same publication policy.
This page is maintained by the Esheria Legal Team. Facts shown here come from published pack rows with verified quote spans, and none of it is legal advice.
Key obligations
The registry duties with daily penalties.
Keep a register of beneficial owners.
A company must enter the required beneficial ownership information in its register of beneficial owners and keep it accurate as ownership and control change. (Section 93A(2), Companies Act, 2015 (Cap. 486).)
BO deadlines & penalties
Beneficial ownership runs on a tight clock.
Lodge BO register copy with the Registrar
Within 60 days (existing companies)
Company
Sec 93A, Companies Act
Lodge BO register amendments
Within 14 days (30 for listed companies)
Company
Sec 93A, Companies Act
Retain beneficial ownership records
At least 10 years
Company
Sec 93A, Companies Act
Default on BO duties
KSh 2,000 + KSh 100/day; fines to KSh 500,000
Company and officers
Sec 93A, Companies Act
Sources & related
Check the source, then go deeper.
Companies Act, 2015 (Cap. 486)
Consolidated text as at 2024-12-27 — the exact source the published pack rows cite. Opens the official PDF.
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