Registering and running a business in Kenya
Registering a business name or company, annual returns, CR12 company searches, the Nairobi business permit and the Hustler Fund. Answers come from the Business Registration Service and the other offices involved.
Most asked
- Register a business name with BRS
- Register a private limited company with BRS
- Borrow from the Hustler Fund (Financial Inclusion Fund)
- Get a liquor licence in Nairobi (bar, restaurant, wines and spirits)
- KEBS import inspection: Certificate of Conformity (PVoC) and destination inspection
- Add your company or organisation account on the NTSA Service Portal
- Amend a co-operative's by-laws or change its name
- Appeal a Capital Markets Authority (CMA) decision at the Capital Markets Tribunal
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- A company director's legal duties
- Add your company or organisation account on the NTSA Service Portal
- Am I personally liable for my partnership's debts?
- Amend a co-operative's by-laws or change its name
- Appeal a Capital Markets Authority (CMA) decision at the Capital Markets Tribunal
- Appeal a Communications Authority or Media Council decision at the Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal (CAMAT)
- Appeal a Competition Authority (CAK) decision at the Competition Tribunal
- Appeal a KEBS decision at the Standards Tribunal
- Appeal a Nairobi International Financial Centre (NIFC) decision at the Financial Centre Tribunal
- Appeal an EPRA decision at the Energy and Petroleum Tribunal
- Apply for a broadcasting licence (radio, TV, cable or subscription)
- Apply for a KeRRA wayleave or roadside permit on a rural road
- Apply for a KIE loan for machinery, equipment or working capital
- Apply for a Ministry of Health government import permit for health products
- Apply for a patent, utility model or industrial design (KIPI)
- Apply for a postal or courier licence
- Apply for a prospecting, retention or mining licence
- Apply for a radio frequency licence (private radio network, two-way radio, alarm network)
- Apply for a telecommunications / ICT services licence (ISP, ASP, CSP, network provider)
- Apply for a wayleave, advert, mast or fibre on railway land
- Apply for an IRA licence as an insurance agent, broker or loss assessor
- Apply for an NCPWD economic empowerment grant for a group of persons with disabilities
- Apply for KDC business funding (working capital, asset, project or digital finance)
- Apply for road cutting on an urban road to lay services (KURA)
- Apply for the Made in Kenya brand mark (KEPROBA)
- Apply for tourism incentives (customs duty and VAT exemptions for hotels and tour operators)
- Apply for trade remedies against dumped, subsidised or surging imports (KETRA)
- Apply for Water Sector Trust Fund (WaterFund) project funding
- Apply to EPRA for upstream petroleum permits (exploration, field development)
- Apply to the CMA regulatory sandbox (test a fintech product)
- Are plastic bags banned in Kenya?
- Ask the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund (SASDF) for funding
- Bankruptcy, liquidation and creditor claims (Official Receiver)
- Being asked to pay for goods or services you never ordered
- Betting rules: legal age, minimum bet, credit and adverts
- Book a KenGen power station tour or a visit to the Olkaria Geothermal Spa
- Book a venue at KICC for a conference, exhibition, concert or helipad event
- Book Bomas of Kenya cultural shows and village tours
- Book KWS accommodation (bandas, guest houses, Mbugani Homes, campsites)
- Book space at the Nairobi Film Centre (former Nairobi Cinema)
- Book the Harambee Dancers or hire a Bomas of Kenya hall
- Borrow from the Hustler Fund (Financial Inclusion Fund)
- Buy a Kenya Gazette, Act or Bill from the Government Printer
- Buy a Kenya Standard (or propose a new one)
- Buy a Mavuno water pump or order CNC machining and fabrication from NMC
- Buy breeding cattle, seed and feeds from ADC
- Buy bull semen, liquid nitrogen and AI equipment from KAGRC
- Buy Central Bank of Kenya commemorative coins
- Buy certified seed from Kenya Seed Company and avoid fake seed
- Buy fish fingerlings, brood stock or fish feed from KMFRI
- Buy goods from or supply goods to Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC)
- Buy goods or cars at a KRA customs auction
- Buy Government subsidised fertiliser (e-voucher)
- Buy seeds, seedlings, chicks and breeding animals from KALRO
- Buy shares when the government sells a state corporation (privatisation share offer)
- Buy Treasury bills and bonds on DhowCSD
- Buy tree seeds and seedlings from KEFRI
- Calibrate equipment and instruments at KEBS (metrology)
- Can a director be personally liable for company debts?
- Can a lender charge you for paying off a loan early?
- Can a loan app contact your friends and family about your debt?
- Can a loan broker or 'CRB clean-up' firm ask you to pay upfront?
- Can a logbook loan lender seize your car without warning?
- Can a seller repossess goods you bought on instalments?
- Can a shop refuse to give you a receipt?
- Can I appeal a Small Claims Court decision?
- Can Kenya Power disconnect you without notice, and how to dispute it
- Can my bank raise its charges whenever it wants?
- Can the State take property bought with corruption money?
- Can you be arrested for owing someone money?
- Can you be declared bankrupt for unpaid debts?
- Can your bank share your account information?
- Cancelling a gym, fitness or slimming membership
- Cancelling an online purchase
- Cancelling something a salesperson sold you at home or at work
- Cash and coins as legal tender: can a shop refuse them?
- Certify aviation security staff, ground handlers or in-flight caterers
- Change a company's name
- Change a PBO's officials, name, address or constitution, or get a PBORA bank letter
- Change a society's officials, office address, name or constitution
- Change business name details (partner, address, nature of business)
- Change company details: registered office, share capital, allotment of shares or articles
- Change company directors, shareholders or beneficial owners
- Check a court case status or cause list online
- Check a film's age rating or if it's banned in Kenya (KFCB film catalogue)
- Check a product's KEBS S-Mark, D-Mark or F-Mark
- Check if a bank, digital lender, forex bureau or money remitter is licensed by CBK
- Check if a betting company is licensed in Kenya
- Check if a construction project is registered with NCA
- Check if a contractor is registered with NCA
- Check if a hotel, tour operator or travel agent is licensed by TRA
- Check if a pesticide is registered or banned, and report fake or misused pesticides
- Check if a phone is genuine (IMEI check by SMS to 1555)
- Check if a private security company is licensed (PSRA)
- Check if a SACCO is licensed by SASRA
- Check if a telecom, ISP, broadcaster or courier company is licensed by the Communications Authority
- Check if a vet is registered, or complain about one
- Check if an accountant or audit firm is registered with ICPAK
- Check if an investment firm, broker or money market fund is CMA-licensed
- Check if an NGO/PBO is registered or do an official PBO file search
- Check if an organisation is registered with the ODPC (data handler register)
- Check Kenya's inflation rate (CPI) and other official statistics
- Check PPRA's list of debarred firms, or ask for a firm to be debarred
- Check that seed is genuine KEPHIS-certified seed (and report fake seed)
- Check the official CBK exchange rates (KES)
- Check which collective management organisations (CMOs) are licensed, or apply for a CMO licence
- Claim back staff training costs from NITA (training levy reimbursement)
- Claim from the Policyholders Compensation Fund when an insurer collapses
- Clear commercial imports through KRA customs
- Clear goods for export through KRA customs
- Close a company or business name (strike off)
- Coffee law in Kenya (Coffee Act 2026) and the coffee auction
- Complain about a betting company to the Gambling Regulatory Authority
- Complain about a business to the Competition Authority (misleading prices, adverts or unfair terms)
- Complain about a co-operative society or ask the Commissioner for an inquiry
- Complain about a hotel, tour operator or other tourism business to TRA
- Complain about a SACCO to SASRA
- Complain about a stockbroker, fund manager or investment firm (CMA)
- Complain about an NGO (PBO) or about PBORA
- Complain to CBK about a bank or digital lender
- Complain to EPRA about electricity supply, power bills or fuel
- Complain to Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) about port services
- Complain to KFCB about harmful film, TV or broadcast content
- Contact KALRO: headquarters, phone numbers and research centres
- CRB listing: the notice a lender must give and how long a listing stays
- Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA): when you need one and how to file it with ODPC
- Diaspora remittance statistics (CBK)
- Do products need a KEBS mark? Compulsory standards and the law
- Do weighing scales and fuel pumps need to be verified?
- Does a chama or self-help group have to register? The Community Groups law
- Does a private company need a company secretary?
- Enrol a medical lab in proficiency testing (EQA) with NPHL
- Exchange damaged or torn Kenyan banknotes
- File a case at the Small Claims Court (claims up to KSh 1 million)
- File a PBO (NGO) annual report with PBORA
- File a society's annual returns (Form I)
- File and pay for a court case online (Judiciary e-filing)
- File or update your company's beneficial ownership information (BOF)
- File your company's annual returns (BRS)
- Find and bid for government tenders
- Find and claim unclaimed money or assets (UFAA)
- Find ICPAK technical guidance: illustrative financial statements, IFRS S1/S2 and the audit manual
- Find import and export procedures and requirements (InfoTrade Kenya portal)
- Find KURA tenders, addenda and awarded contracts
- Generate an ICPAK UDIN (Unique Document Identification Number)
- Get a bank, microfinance bank or payment service provider licence from CBK
- Get a Bomet County fire safety clearance certificate for business premises
- Get a bookmaker's (sports betting) licence from GRA
- Get a Bungoma County fire compliance certificate (fire inspection) for business premises
- Get a Bungoma County food handlers medical certificate and food hygiene licence
- Get a casino (public gambling) licence from GRA
- Get a certificate of origin for exports (EAC, COMESA, AfCFTA)
- Get a CITES permit to import, export or re-export wildlife
- Get a CMA licence (stockbroker, fund manager, investment adviser and more)
- Get a cotton ginning, sisal factory or fibre crops export licence
- Get a customs agent (clearing and forwarding) licence
- Get a digital credit provider (DCP) licence from CBK
- Get a digital health system (EMR, app) certified by the Digital Health Agency
- Get a farm loan from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC)
- Get a film distribution licence (movie shop, video library, online film seller)
- Get a film exhibition licence (cinema, video show, gaming shop, digital billboard)
- Get a film, music video or advert classified (KFCB age rating)
- Get a filming licence in Kenya (KFCB)
- Get a fire safety (fire clearance) certificate for business premises in Nairobi
- Get a fire safety inspection for business premises in Meru County
- Get a fish import or export permit, certificate of compliance or fish health certificate
- Get a fishing licence or register a fishing boat
- Get a food handlers medical certificate and food hygiene licence in Kisumu County
- Get a forex bureau licence from CBK
- Get a GMO-free certificate or no-objection letter from the National Biosafety Authority
- Get a GMP inspection and certificate for a medicine factory (PPB)
- Get a hides and skins buyer's licence or register a tannery
- Get a Kajiado County fire compliance certificate (fire risk assessment) for business premises
- Get a Kakamega County fire safety compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a Kakamega County food handler's health certificate and food hygiene licence
- Get a KEBS Fortification Mark (F-Mark) for fortified flour or cooking oil
- Get a KEBS Standardization Mark (S-Mark) for your product
- Get a KeNHA wayleave to lay pipes, cables or fibre in a highway road reserve
- Get a Kenya Dairy Board import, export or transit permit for milk and dairy products
- Get a Kenya Dairy Board permit (milk bar, mini dairy, processor, cooling plant)
- Get a Kericho County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a KFS movement permit to transport timber, poles or charcoal
- Get a Kiambu County fire safety inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Kiambu County food handlers certificate and food hygiene permit
- Get a Kiambu County liquor licence
- Get a Kilifi County fire safety inspection for business premises
- Get a Kirinyaga County fire compliance certificate
- Get a Kisii County fire compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a Kisumu County fire safety inspection (fire certificate) for business premises
- Get a Kitui County fire safety inspection and compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a KRA advance ruling on tariff classification, valuation or origin
- Get a Kwale County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a KWS authority to deal in wildlife or a trophy ownership certificate
- Get a KWS tour operator annual park licence
- Get a laboratory designated by NEMA for environmental testing
- Get a laboratory, inspection or certification body accredited (KENAS)
- Get a Laikipia County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a licence to collect firewood or graze in a public forest
- Get a licence to import, export, sell or transport X-ray equipment or radioactive material
- Get a liquor licence in Nairobi (bar, restaurant, wines and spirits)
- Get a Machakos County fire safety (fire compliance) certificate for business premises
- Get a Machakos County food handlers medical certificate and food hygiene permit
- Get a Makueni County fire safety compliance certificate (annual fire inspection) for business premises
- Get a Mandera County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Meru County food hygiene licence and medical certificate for food businesses
- Get a mineral dealer licence (gold, gemstones and other minerals)
- Get a mineral export permit (and declare mineral imports)
- Get a miraa (khat) export licence
- Get a Mombasa County liquor licence
- Get a Murang'a County fire safety inspection for business premises
- Get a NACADA licence to import or export alcoholic drinks
- Get a Nakuru County fire safety inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Nakuru County food handlers medical certificate and food hygiene licence
- Get a Nakuru County liquor licence
- Get a Nandi County fire safety and compliance certificate (fire inspection) for business premises
- Get a Narok County fire safety compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a NEMA air emission licence (factories) or become a vehicle emission testing centre
- Get a NEMA effluent discharge licence (EDL)
- Get a NEMA Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) licence
- Get a NEMA licence to import, export or produce ozone-depleting (controlled) substances
- Get a NEMA licence to make, import, export or use plastic packaging (flat bags and plastic film)
- Get a NEMA licence to run a waste recycling, treatment, transfer or disposal facility
- Get a NEMA licence to transport waste (garbage trucks)
- Get a NEMA permit to access genetic resources (access and benefit sharing)
- Get a NEMA permit to export waste or move hazardous waste through Kenya (transit)
- Get a NEMA sand transportation permit
- Get a new-vehicle dealer licence and register new vehicles for sale (NTSA)
- Get a noise or excessive vibration permit (events, construction, worship)
- Get a nuts and oil crops licence (macadamia, cashew, groundnut dealer, processor or exporter)
- Get a Nyamira County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Nyandarua County fire certificate for business premises
- Get a Nyeri County certificate of fire compliance for business premises
- Get a PBORA letter for an M-Pesa paybill, bank account, work permit or other official purpose
- Get a PCPB permit to import or export pesticides
- Get a PCPB premises licence to sell, store, make or apply pesticides (agrovet, wholesaler, fumigator)
- Get a physiotherapy clinic inspected and licensed (PCK)
- Get a plant, soil, fertiliser or pesticide-residue test at a KEPHIS lab
- Get a Port Health export or import health certificate for food and other goods
- Get a PPB import or export permit for medicines and health products
- Get a private practice licence to run a clinic as a clinical officer
- Get a prize competition licence for a promotion
- Get a product tested at a KEBS laboratory
- Get a public lottery or raffle licence from GRA
- Get a rehab centre accredited and licensed by NACADA (for operators)
- Get a Remote Operator Certificate (ROC) to fly drones commercially
- Get a SASRA licence or authorisation for a SACCO
- Get a scrap metal dealer licence
- Get a short code or other phone numbers (numbering resources)
- Get a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) licence
- Get a sugar import or export licence and permit from the Kenya Sugar Board
- Get a Taita Taveta County certificate of fire inspection for business premises
- Get a Tana River County fire compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a tea manufacturing (factory) licence from the Tea Board of Kenya
- Get a totalisator or pool betting licence from GRA
- Get a TRA licence as a tour operator, travel agent, safari or boat excursion operator (Class C)
- Get a TRA licence for a hotel, guest house, villa, homestay or Airbnb (Class A)
- Get a TRA licence for a nature park, campsite, curio or beach business, or entertainment venue (Classes D, E, F)
- Get a TRA licence for a restaurant or food and beverage business (Class B)
- Get a Trans Nzoia County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Turkana County annual fire compliance certificate for business premises
- Get a Uasin Gishu County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get a Vihiga County fire clearance certificate (fire safety inspection) for business premises
- Get a warehouse certified and licensed to operate in the warehouse receipt system
- Get a West Pokot County fire safety inspection licence for business premises
- Get a Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) Tuinuke chama loan
- Get a Youth Enterprise Development Fund (Youth Fund) loan
- Get an AGPO certificate (government tenders for youth, women and persons with disabilities)
- Get an Air Operator Certificate and air service licence (start an airline or charter)
- Get an amateur radio or citizen band (CB) radio licence
- Get an amusement machine or pool table licence
- Get an artisanal mining permit
- Get an Elgeyo Marakwet County fire inspection certificate for business premises
- Get an Embu County fire safety inspection and compliance certificate
- Get an EPRA construction permit before building a petrol station or LPG facility
- Get an EPRA electricity generation, distribution or supply licence
- Get an EPRA licence to run a petrol station (retail of petroleum products)
- Get an EPRA licence to sell or refill LPG gas cylinders
- Get an EPRA licence to store petroleum, LPG or crude oil (depots)
- Get an EPRA licence to transport fuel or LPG (road tankers, rail and pipeline)
- Get an EPRA lubricants import, blending or wholesale licence
- Get an EPRA petroleum import, export or wholesale licence (oil marketers)
- Get an EPRA solar water heating licence (installer, contractor or manufacturer)
- Get an EPZ licence (operate or develop in an Export Processing Zone)
- Get an import permit for meat, animal feeds or veterinary biologicals
- Get an investment certificate and investor help from Invest Kenya (KenInvest)
- Get an ISBN for your book and deposit copies with KNLS
- Get an NCK private practice licence for a nursing home or nurse-run clinic
- Get an official company search (CR12) from BRS
- Get an Uwezo Fund loan for a youth, women or PWD group
- Get approval to carry out an aerial survey or aerial mapping
- Get approval to import a biological control agent or bio-product (KEPHIS / KSTCIE)
- Get Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status with KRA
- Get back a deposit or performance guarantee from KeNHA
- Get certified by the Kenya Film Commission and listed in its film industry database
- Get copyright authentication stickers (anti-piracy security devices) from KECOBO
- Get filming facilitation and location support from the Kenya Film Commission
- Get geological maps and data, or have rock and mineral samples identified or analysed (Geological Survey)
- Get GRA approval to advertise gambling
- Get help investing in Kenya from the diaspora (DISO)
- Get innovation support from the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA)
- Get ISO or management system certification from KEBS
- Get Kaizen productivity training or consultancy from NPCC
- Get KeNHA approval for a billboard or signboard on a highway road reserve
- Get KMFRI tide tables, lab analysis or book an educational visit
- Get KWS authority to run a wildlife farming or utilisation enterprise
- Get lab reagents and equipment validated before sale
- Get licensed as an electronic certification service provider (digital certificates)
- Get NCPWD LPO financing for a business owned by a person with disability (AGPO)
- Get or renew a Baringo County business permit
- Get or renew a Bomet County business permit
- Get or renew a Bomet County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Bungoma County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Bungoma County single business permit
- Get or renew a Busia County business permit
- Get or renew a Busia County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Garissa County business permit
- Get or renew a Homa Bay County business permit
- Get or renew a Homa Bay County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Kajiado County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Kajiado County single business permit (SBP)
- Get or renew a Kakamega County liquor licence
- Get or renew a Kakamega County trade licence (single business permit)
- Get or renew a Kericho County single business permit
- Get or renew a Kiambu County business permit (trade licence)
- Get or renew a Kilifi County liquor licence
- Get or renew a Kilifi County single business permit
- Get or renew a Kirinyaga County business permit
- Get or renew a Kirinyaga County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Kisii County business permit
- Get or renew a Kisii County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Kisumu County business permit
- Get or renew a Kisumu County liquor licence
- Get or renew a Kitui County business permit
- Get or renew a Kitui County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Kwale County business permit
- Get or renew a Kwale County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Laikipia County business permit
- Get or renew a Laikipia County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Lamu County business permit
- Get or renew a Lamu County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Machakos County liquor licence (alcoholic drinks licence)
- Get or renew a Machakos County single business permit (SBP)
- Get or renew a Makueni County business permit
- Get or renew a Makueni County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Mandera County business permit
- Get or renew a Marsabit County business permit
- Get or renew a Marsabit County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Meru County liquor licence (alcoholic drinks licence)
- Get or renew a Meru County single business permit
- Get or renew a Migori County business permit
- Get or renew a Mombasa County business permit
- Get or renew a Murang'a County business permit
- Get or renew a Murang'a County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Nairobi County Unified Business Permit (UBP)
- Get or renew a Nakuru County business permit (trade licence)
- Get or renew a Nandi County business permit
- Get or renew a Nandi County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Narok County business permit
- Get or renew a Narok County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Nyamira County business permit
- Get or renew a Nyamira County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Nyandarua County business permit
- Get or renew a Nyandarua County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Nyeri County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Nyeri County single business permit
- Get or renew a Samburu County business permit
- Get or renew a Samburu County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a second-hand car dealer licence (NTSA)
- Get or renew a Siaya County business permit
- Get or renew a Taita Taveta County business permit
- Get or renew a Taita Taveta County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Tana River County business permit
- Get or renew a Tharaka Nithi County business permit
- Get or renew a Tharaka Nithi County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Trans Nzoia County business permit
- Get or renew a Trans Nzoia County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Turkana County business permit
- Get or renew a Turkana County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Uasin Gishu County (Eldoret) single business permit
- Get or renew a Uasin Gishu County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Vihiga County business permit
- Get or renew a Vihiga County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew a Wajir County business permit
- Get or renew a West Pokot County business permit
- Get or renew an Elgeyo Marakwet County business permit
- Get or renew an Elgeyo Marakwet County liquor (alcoholic drinks) licence
- Get or renew an Embu County alcoholic drinks (liquor) licence
- Get or renew an Embu County business permit
- Get or renew an ICPAK practising licence and register an accounting or audit firm
- Get or renew an Isiolo County business permit
- Get or renew an NTSA speed limiter licence (vendors and installers)
- Get permission to film or take photos at a national museum or heritage site
- Get permission to film or take photos in a national park
- Get PPB approval to advertise or promote a medicine or health product
- Get products tested at KIRDI labs, or join KIRDI incubation and common manufacturing facilities
- Get technical support for weather instruments from KMD
- Get the KEBS Diamond Mark of Quality (D-Mark)
- Get type approval for phones, routers, radios and other communications equipment
- Get workspace, incubation or a CIDC/worksite for your small business (MSEA)
- Get your company accredited as an ICT supplier to government (ICT Authority)
- Get your hotel or restaurant star-rated (TRA classification)
- Get your soil tested and fertiliser advice (KALRO soil testing)
- Get, renew or replace KG, KD, KT or KC trade plates (NTSA)
- Getting back a charge the law did not allow
- Getting your savings back when you leave a SACCO
- Government support for small traders and jua kali businesses
- Hire a performance space at the Kenya Cultural Centre (Kenya National Theatre)
- Hire police officers for private security or an event
- Hire purchase: registering agreements and getting a hire purchase business licence
- How long a company must keep its accounting records
- How long an insurer has to pay your claim
- How long to keep receipts and business records for tax
- How many directors a company needs, and how old they must be
- How much interest and penalties a lender can add once you default (the in duplum rule)
- How partners share profits when there's no written agreement
- How the sugarcane price per tonne is set, and what to do if you dispute it
- How to challenge a government tender award you lost
- How to leave or end a partnership
- Incorporate a trust (registered trustees, perpetual succession)
- Invest, lease land or set up at Konza Technopolis
- Is chang'aa legal now?
- Is crypto legal in Kenya? Licensing of crypto platforms (VASPs)
- Is it an offence to lie about where goods come from or what they are made of?
- Is it legal to burn or sell charcoal?
- Is miraa or muguka legal? Rules and county bans
- Is selling counterfeit goods a crime? What the law says about fakes
- Join a Beach Management Unit (BMU)
- Join a KEPROBA-sponsored trade fair or exhibition abroad
- KALRO farmer training: free online courses, e-repository and agripreneur portal
- KEBS import inspection: Certificate of Conformity (PVoC) and destination inspection
- Keeping bees and selling honey legally
- Kenya coffee grades (AA, AB, PB and more)
- Kenya's dairy policy, Dairy Master Plan and dairy rules
- Lease your building to a government ministry or agency
- License a bonded warehouse with KRA
- License a fish processing plant or fish farm (aquaculture) with KeFS
- License a foreign fishing vessel to fish in Kenyan waters
- License a maritime transport operator (shipping agent, shipping line, clearing agent)
- License a motor vehicle body builder with NTSA
- License a private security company (PSRA)
- License a slaughterhouse (local or export)
- License an irrigation scheme or register as an irrigation service provider
- License or renew a driving school with NTSA
- License, certify or register an airstrip or aerodrome
- Link an older company or business name to your BRS eCitizen account
- Livestock movement permit and animal import permit (dogs and cats)
- Lodge an Import Declaration Form (IDF) and get import permits on the KenTrade single window
- Move an existing NGO to the PBO Act (update your records with PBORA)
- National livestock vaccination campaign and animal ID tagging
- NGAAF grants and bursaries (women, youth, persons with disabilities)
- Notify the Competition Authority of a merger or acquisition and get approval
- Open a Postbank (Kenya Post Office Savings Bank) account
- Open or renew a pharmacy (chemist) premises licence
- Oppose a trademark application
- Order livestock vaccines from KEVEVAPI
- Paid in advance but the goods or service never came
- Pay forest entry, camping, filming or grounds-hire fees in KFS forests
- Pay Mombasa County's yearly fire inspection fee for business premises
- Pay national park entry fees (citizens and residents)
- Pay the Tharaka Nithi County annual fire safety inspection fee for business premises
- Petition the Public Private Partnership Petition Committee over a PPP tender or project decision
- Plant Import Permit and phytosanitary certificate (KEPHIS)
- Record a new owner or licence for a trademark or patent
- Record your trademark with ACA to block fake imports (IPR recordation)
- Register a building or construction site with DOSHS
- Register a business name with BRS
- Register a carbon project with NEMA (National Carbon Registry)
- Register a coat of arms (local grant or foreign grant)
- Register a company charge or debenture with BRS
- Register a company limited by guarantee or a public company
- Register a construction project with NCA
- Register a cultural group, artist, association or traditional herbalist with the Department of Culture
- Register a drone training school (UTO) or drone reseller
- Register a foreign company (branch) in Kenya
- Register a medical device, IVD, herbal medicine or food supplement with PPB
- Register a medicine or health product with PPB (marketing authorisation), and renew or vary it
- Register a micro or small enterprise or jua kali association (MSEA)
- Register a new crop variety (NPT/DUS testing) or apply for plant breeders' rights (KEPHIS)
- Register a new political party
- Register a new private hospital, clinic or medical centre (KMPDC)
- Register a partnership or LLP with BRS
- Register a pest control product (pesticide) for sale in Kenya
- Register a private limited company with BRS
- Register a SACCO or co-operative society
- Register a self-help group or CBO
- Register a small-scale water service provider with WASREB
- Register a society or association (Registrar of Societies)
- Register a sports club or sports organisation with the Sports Registrar
- Register a trade union or employers' organisation
- Register a trademark with KIPI
- Register a tree nursery and record the trees you plant on the JazaMiti app
- Register an aircraft and get its certificate of airworthiness
- Register an ambulance service and get ambulance licences (KMPDC)
- Register an architecture or quantity surveying firm with BORAQS (Form B3)
- Register an engineering consulting firm with EBK
- Register an NGO (Public Benefit Organisation)
- Register and get prequalified as a KEMSA supplier
- Register and license a private medical laboratory
- Register and license toxic and hazardous chemicals with NEMA
- Register as a commercial green leaf transporter or tea nursery operator (Tea Board of Kenya)
- Register as a contractor with the National Construction Authority (NCA)
- Register as a data controller or data processor (ODPC)
- Register as a farmer on KIAMIS (for Government support)
- Register as a film agent for foreign productions (KFCB)
- Register as a firearms dealer or register a shooting range
- Register as a food crops dealer, importer or exporter (cereals, beans and other food crops)
- Register as a horticultural produce dealer for the local market (marketing agent, transporter, processor)
- Register as a horticulture exporter (AFA-HCD export licence)
- Register as a KLB customer (cash or credit account) and order online
- Register as a local filmmaker with KFCB
- Register as a producer under EPR and get an EPR import certificate
- Register as a pyrethrum grower, dealer or processor
- Register as a reporting institution with the Financial Reporting Centre (goAML)
- Register as a seed merchant, seed grower or seed seller (KEPHIS)
- Register as a tea buyer, exporter, packer, importer, broker, warehouse operator or management agent
- Register as a tea grower with the Tea Board of Kenya
- Register copyright for music, books, software or art (KECOBO)
- Register electrical appliances for EPRA energy labels
- Register lifts, boilers and other plant with DOSHS and get them examined
- Register on the Kenya National Electronic Single Window (KenTrade)
- Register or renew a workplace with DOSHS
- Register or renew as a NITA-registered training provider
- Register or renew as a radiation technical service provider or qualified expert
- Register to make or sell scales, approve a workshop or get a pattern approval (Weights and Measures)
- Register with KEPROBA as an exporter and get export market support
- Register with KFS as a sawmiller or forest industry investor (timber, poles, fuelwood)
- Reinstate a suspended or deregistered PBO (NGO), or dissolve one
- Renew a health facility's annual KMPDC licence
- Rent a KIE industrial shed or incubation workspace
- Rent or renew a post office box (Posta Kenya)
- Report a cartel, abuse of dominance or abuse of buyer power to the Competition Authority
- Report a crop pest outbreak (armyworm, locusts, quelea birds)
- Report a fuel pipeline leak, fire or vandalism to Kenya Pipeline (toll-free)
- Report a personal data breach to ODPC (organisations)
- Report a substandard product to KEBS
- Report an unsafe or unregistered construction site to NCA
- Report and remit unclaimed assets to UFAA (banks, insurers, companies)
- Report bad milk or an unlicensed dairy outlet to the Kenya Dairy Board
- Report child online abuse or harmful content
- Report counterfeit (fake) goods to the Anti-Counterfeit Authority
- Report insurance fraud to IRA's Insurance Fraud Investigation Unit
- Report piracy or copyright infringement to KECOBO
- Report radio frequency interference to the Communications Authority
- Request a patent or technology search from KIPI
- Request crime research, advisories or data from the National Crime Research Centre (NCRC)
- Request Government help with an irrigation or water-harvesting project
- Restore a struck-off company to the register
- Returning faulty goods or getting a refund
- Run a cyber cafe legally (Public Communications Access Centre licence)
- SACCO deposit guarantee fund: are my SACCO savings insured?
- Search and reserve a business or company name (BRS)
- Search or register security over movable property (e-Collateral Registry)
- Sell livestock to KMC or buy KMC meat products
- Sell maize or other produce to NCPB
- Sell phones and communications equipment legally (vendor licence)
- Send a parcel or letter by Posta courier (EMS Kenya)
- Send cargo by rail with Kenya Railways
- Sent mobile money to the wrong number, or lost money: what the law says
- Short weight and packets with less than they say
- Someone is using my business name online: is that illegal?
- Someone took a loan in my name: what the law says
- Store grain in a certified warehouse and use the warehouse receipt to sell or borrow
- Submit a disability mainstreaming compliance report to NCPWD (public institutions)
- Submit a film or TV show to the Kalasha Awards
- Submit a privately initiated PPP proposal (PIP)
- Submit a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to NEMA for a policy, plan or programme
- Submit medicines, medical devices or veterinary products for quality testing at NQCL
- Submit your annual environmental audit (EA) to NEMA
- Supply milk to New KCC as a dairy farmer
- Take a copyright dispute to the Copyright Tribunal
- Take a dispute to the Micro and Small Enterprises Tribunal
- Take a patent, utility model or industrial design dispute to the Industrial Property Tribunal
- Take a SACCO or co-operative dispute to the Co-operative Tribunal
- Take a small business course at KIBT
- Take your dog or cat abroad: get a veterinary export certificate
- Taking a consumer dispute to court, even with an arbitration clause
- Test food, drugs, chemicals or water at the Government Chemist
- The Co-operative Societies Act (Cap. 490): how co-operatives are run
- The Sacco Societies Act, 2008 and the Sacco Amendment Bill, 2025
- Tourism Fund support: free upskilling for tourism workers (TTRF), loans and grants
- Track cargo and pay KPA port charges (KWATOS)
- Upgrade or downgrade your NCA contractor category
- Use government music equipment (for upcoming musicians)
- Use KLB printing, branding, translation or editorial services
- VAT rates, and what is exempt or zero-rated
- Visit the KICC view tower and helipad
- What a loan app must tell you before you borrow, and when it can change the terms
- What happens when a loan you guaranteed is not repaid
- When a trader takes unfair advantage of you
- When does dormant money go to UFAA?
- When the bill is higher than the estimate you were given
- Who handles agriculture: county or national government
- Who is liable when a product injures you or damages your property
- Who licenses bars, betting shops, markets and businesses: the county or the national government?
- Your basic rights as a consumer
- Your right to check goods before you accept them
- Your rights under a loan or credit card: skipped payments, loan insurance, charges and cards you never asked for