Section 1014 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Right to require company to provide hard copy version of company document or information
(1) A member of a company, or a holder of a company’s debentures, who has received a document information from the company otherwise than in hard copy form is entitled to require the company to send to the member or debenture holder a version of the document or information in hard copy form.
(2) The company shall send the document or information in hard copy form within twenty-one days after being requested to do so by the member or debenture holder.
(3) The company may not impose or attempt to impose a charge for providing the document or information in that form.
(4) If a company fails to comply with subsection (2), or contravenes subsection (3), the company, and each officer of the company who is in default, commit an offence and on conviction are each liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings.
(5) If, after a company or officer is convicted of an offence under subsection (4) in relation to a failure to send a document or information in hard form, the company continues to fail to send the document or information, the company, and each officer of the company who is in default, commit a further offence on each day on which the failure continues and on conviction are each liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings for each such offence.
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