Section 1022 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Power of Cabinet Secretary to make regulations for purposes of this Act

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make general companies regulations prescribing matters—
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by regulations; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed by regulations for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the general companies regulations may do all or any of the following—
(a) prescribe a body or bodies that are recognised for the purposes of issuing standards of accounting practice for the preparation of financial documents and reports required under or for the purposes of this Act;
(b) provide for matters relating to—
(i) maintaining the Register and other records by the Registrar;
(ii) lodging documents with the Registrar;
(iii) the registration of documents by the Registrar;
(c) prescribe requirements with which documents lodged or to be lodged with the Registrar are to comply;
(d) provide for the allocation of unique identifying numbers to existing companies;
(e) prescribe the requirements for allocating unique identifying numbers of companies (including registered foreign companies);
(f) authorise the Registrar to adopt new forms of unique identifying numbers for companies (including registered foreign companies) and to make such changes to existing registered identifying numbers as appear to the Registrar to be necessary;
(g) prescribe the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, a company's unique identifying number are to be or can be changed;
(h) prescribe forms for the purposes of this Act and the method of verifying any information required by or in those forms;
(i) prescribe the manner in which, the persons by whom, and the directions or requirements in accordance with which, the forms prescribed for the purposes of this Act, or any of them, are required or permitted to be signed, prepared, or completed, and generally regulate the signing, preparation and completion of those forms, or any of them;
(j) prescribe requirements for—
(i) sending notices of meetings of members to those entitled to attend those meetings,
(ii) lodging copies of notices of, and resolutions passed at, such meetings, and
(iii) generally regulating the conduct of, procedure at, meetings of members;
(k) prescribe the persons by whom, and the circumstances and manner in which, proxies may be appointed and generally regulate the appointment of proxies;
(l) impose requirements for or in relation to giving to the Registrar information in addition to, or in variation of, the information contained in a prescribed form that is required to be lodged with the form;
(m) prescribe requirements for or in relation to the times within which documents required to be lodged with, or information required to be given to, the Registrar under this Act are to be so lodged or is to be so given;
(n) prescribe offences for failing to comply with a requirement of a specified regulation, or for contravening a prohibition imposed by a specified regulation, and prescribe fines that can be imposed on persons convicted of those offences not exceeding five hundred thousand shillings.
(3) The general companies regulations may—
(a) if documents required by or under this Act to be lodged in accordance with this Act are required to be verified or certified and no manner of verification or certification is prescribed by or under this Act — require the documents or any of them to be verified or certified by a statement in writing made by such persons as are prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) if no express provision is made in this Act for verification or certification of documents – require the documents to be verified or certified by statement in writing by such persons as are prescribed.
(4) A general regulation may make provision in relation to a specified matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, the provisions of contained in any document as in force or existing at the time when the regulation takes effect, but it may not make provision in relation to that matter by applying, adopting or incorporating any provision contained in a document as in force or existing from time to time.
(5) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the general regulations may be of general or specially limited application or may differ according to differences in time, locality, place or circumstance.
(5) The general companies regulations apply to foreign companies only insofar as they expressly so provide.