ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Public Benefits Organizations Act
15. Register of public benefit organisations
Edition: 2025-06-20 · In force
15. Register of public benefit organisations
(1)The Authority shall maintain a register of all registered public benefit organizations and such register shall include the following information—(a)the area of the activities of the organization;(b)the registered officials for the time being in charge of the organization;(c)any information presented to the Authority by the organization pursuant to this Act or regulations;(d)a detailed inventory of the assets of the organization;(e)any other information that the Authority may deem necessary to include or as may be provided in the regulations.(2)The register kept under this section shall—(a)be open to public inspection during ordinary business hours; and—(i)any person may request, in person or by mail, a copy of any entry in the register; and(ii)no more than a reasonable charge may be made for a copy of an entry in the register;(b)be made available through the internet.(3)Any person may, upon payment of the prescribed fee—(a)inspect the register or any documents filed with the Authority;(b)require to be supplied with a certificate, duly certified by the Authority, showing the subsisting entries in the register relating to any organization registered under this Act; or(c)require to be supplied with a copy of, or an extract from, any document filed with the Authority duly certified by the Authority to be a true copy or extract, as the case may be.(4)Despite subsection (2), the Authority may refuse to issue a copy of a certificate of registration to an applicant unless that applicant satisfies such conditions as the Authority may determine, including satisfying the Authority as to the intention of the use of the copy.(5)A copy of an entry requested under subsection (2) (a) (i), or a written decision explaining the reasons for the denial of the request, shall be furnished to the person making the request within thirty days of request.(6)Within fourteen days after the end of each quarter of the financial year, the Authority shall publish in the Gazette and on a website which it shall maintain for the purpose of publication of information relating to its operations, names of—(a)all public benefit organizations that are registered;(b)all public benefit organizations whose registration were cancelled during the preceding quarter of the financial year; and(c)all public benefit organizations which deregistered voluntarily, were wound up or dissolved during the previous quarter of the financial year.(7)A public benefit organization that has been deregistered shall be removed from the register, but its entry in the register, including the decision on deregistration and the reasons thereof, shall be retained and made available to the public upon request.(8)The register shall be received in proceedings before any court or tribunal as evidence of the matters recorded therein which are required by or under this Act to be so recorded.(9)A document purporting to be certified by the Director to be a true copy of an entry in the register stating that a public benefit organization is not, or was not registered on a date specified in the document, shall be received in proceedings before a court or tribunal as prima facie evidence of any such matters contained in the entry or of that fact, as the case may be.