52
CAP. 411A
Requirement of
licence.
1 of 2009, s. 17.
Kenya Information and Communications
[Rev. 2011
49. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall
operate or provide postal services except in accordance with a valid
licence issued in accordance with this Part.
(2) A person who contravenes the provisions of this section
commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding three hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one year, or to both.
(3) In this section, “person” means a natural or a corporate
person, a firm, government, state or state agency, any association or
partnership.
Designation of public
postal licensee.
License to provide
postal services.
50. The Minister shall designate the Postal Corporation of Kenya
to be the public postal licensee and may, by notice in the Gazette, assign
to it, any of the powers, duties and functions of the Commission under
this Part relating to postal articles being conveyed, within the system
of a public postal licensee as he may think fit.
51. (1) The Commission may, upon application in the prescribed
manner and subject to the conditions specified in section 52 or such
other conditions as the Commission may deem necessary, grant a licence
in the prescribed form authorizing any person to operate or to provide
postal services in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) A licence granted under this section shall unless earlier revoked
in accordance with any term specified therein, continue in force for such
period as may be specified therein.
Conditions of
licence.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Commission may
renew or revoke a licence issued under this section or vary or modify
any conditions attached thereto.
52. Every licensee shall be required to observe the following
licence conditions—
(a) to provide courier services to any person, who requests for
such services where available;
(b) to notify the Commission forthwith of the current tariffs
charged for postal services and changes to the tariffs for each
different type of postal service provided to each location
within thirty days of such changes;
(c) to display prominently at each premises from which it
conducts its business, current tariffs for each postal service