ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Accountants Act
26. Qualifications for registration
Edition: 2025-06-20 · In force
26. Qualifications for registration
(1)Subject to this section, a person is qualified to be registered if the person—(a)has been awarded by the Examinations Board a certificate designated the Final Accountancy Certificate; or(b)holds a qualification approved under subsection (2) by the Council.(2)The Council may in consultation with the Examinations Board and with the approval of the Cabinet Secretary, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, approve qualifications which it considers sufficient to allow a person to be registered, and may, in like manner, withdraw any such approval.(3)Notwithstanding subsection (1) or (2), the Council may require a person making an application for registration to satisfy the Registration Committee, in such manner as it may direct, that the person has—(a)adequate knowledge of local law and practice;(b)adequate experience in accounting; and(c)acceptable professsional conduct and general character which, in the opinion of the Committee, make such person a fit and proper person to be registered, and unless the person so satisfies the Registration Committee, he shall not be treated as being qualified to be registered.