National Transport and Safety Authority Act
29. Discretion of authority to refuse licences
29. Discretion of authority to refuse licences
The Authority may grant or decline to grant any application for a licence, or grant a licence subject to such conditions as it may consider fit to impose, and, in exercising its discretion, the Authority shall have regard to the public interest, including the interest of persons requiring and those of persons providing facilities for transport, and to such other matters as may be prescribed:Provided that the Authority shall, before granting any road service licence in respect of any vehicle for the carriage of passengers from, through or into, the area of jurisdiction of any County, consult and have regard to the laws of the County relating to the place in the area of such County at which the vehicle may stop or start and the route to be taken by such vehicle.Source: Kenya Law