ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Kenya Deposit Insurance Act
15. Confidentiality
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
15. Confidentiality
(1)No director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or any person who for any reason, has access to any record, document, material or information relating to the business and affairs of the Corporation, an institution or a customer of an institution which he has acquired in the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions, shall divulge, publish, or otherwise disclose to any person, such document, material or information unless the disclosure is required—(b)for the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions under this Act; or(c)when lawfully required to do so by a court of law.(2)This section shall not apply to any document, material or information which at the time of the disclosure is, or has already been made, lawfully available to the public from any source.(3)No person who has any document, material or information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of subsection (1) shall in any manner whatsoever disclose the same to any other person.(4)Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (3) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.