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Section 672 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Requirements as to website availability

    

(1) For the purposes of sections 670 and 671, a website complies with this section if it—
(a) is maintained by or on behalf of the company;
(b) identifies the company; and
(c) access to the information on the website, and the ability to obtain a hard copy of the information from the website, is not—
(i) conditional on the payment of a fee; or
(ii) otherwise restricted, except so far as necessary to comply with any written law or regulatory requirement, whether of Kenya or elsewhere.
(2) The company shall ensure that the information referred to in subsection (1)
(c) is—
(a) made available as soon as reasonably practicable; and (b) kept available throughout the relevant period.
(3) A failure to make information available on a website throughout the period referred to in subsection (2)(b) is to be disregarded if—
(a) the information is made available on the website for part of that period; and
(b) the failure is wholly attributable to circumstances that it would not be reasonable to have expected the company to prevent or avoid.
(4) For the purpose of subsection (2)(b), the relevant period is—
(a) in the case of a quoted company's financial statement—the period referred to in section 670(1)(b); and
(b) in the case of a quoted company's preliminary statement of its annual results—the period specified in section 671(1)(b).

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