ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Distress for Rent Act
16. Articles exempted from distress
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
16. Articles exempted from distress
(1)The following goods and chattels shall be exempt from distress for rent—(a)The property of the Government;(b)goods and chattels in the possession of the law;(c)things delivered to a person exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up or managed in the way of his trade;(d)things in actual use or occupation of the person distrained upon at the time of the distress;(e)things of a perishable nature, or such as cannot be restored again in the same state and condition that they were before being taken or must necessarily be damaged by removal or severance;(f)animals ferae naturae;(g)wearing apparel and bedding of the persons whose goods and chattels are being distrained upon and the tools and implements of his trade to the total value of one hundred shillings;(h)things exempted from distress under the Energy Act (Cap. 314); and(i)any metre (together with any fittings thereto) supplied and let on hire by a corporation or company supplying water to the premises on which the distress is levied for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of water consumed on or supplied to those premises.(2)A subordinate court, on complaint that goods or chattels exempt under this section from distress for rent have been taken under that distress, may by summary order direct that the goods and chattels so taken, if not sold, be restored; or, if they have been sold, that such sum as the court may determine to be the value thereof shall be paid to the complainant by the person who levied the distress or directed it to be levied.