Kenya - 1977 - Finance

Debt (Summary Recovery) Act (Revised Edition 2012 [1977])

Kenya, The National Treasury and Planning

This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the summary recovery of civil debts. It emphasizes that any sum declared by any Act, whether past or future, to be a civil debt recoverable summarily may be recovered in the court of any magistrate of competent jurisdiction in the manner prescribed by this Act.

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January 2022

This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the summary recovery of civil debts. It emphasizes that any sum declared by any Act, whether past or future, to be a civil debt recoverable summarily may be recovered in the court of any magistrate of competent jurisdiction in the manner prescribed by this Act.

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