When the system finds what you were looking for, the search results are listed one below the other with a short snippet describing the topic of the action. If there are no results, the system displays it. You can read the list to see if any of the results meet your needs. If not, you can perform a new search by changing the search term or style. If you are satisfied with the result, you can click on the name of the legal or subsidiary act concerned. This will load the appropriate act that you can review. One of the most interesting features of Kenya`s new laws database is that there are now hyperlinks in the content of the legislation. A hyperlink is simply a link that, when clicked, directs you to another section of the current act you are viewing or to a section of another Act. A link is formed for various reasons, but it is usually because there is a reference to another section or legal act in the text of the current law that you are reading. To use a link, just click on it and if it is an internal link, the screen scrolls to the reference. If it is an external link (i.e. to another file), the system opens another tab/window with this content.

To search using a search term, click the Full-Text Search tab. To perform a search, type a search term and click Search or press Enter. Search results are listed vertically. The information for each search result is as follows: law number, law name, brief description of the law, and statistics of the number of hits of the search term found. By clicking on the name of the act, you access the complete list of acts. If you can`t find a search result, the system displays it. Full-text search returns results, whether you`re typing a full word or a few letters. Please note that full-text search returns more results than other search types, as it returns the occurrence of your search term regardless of the overall context of the action. This can make it more difficult to process research results.

But if you don`t know enough about the topic you`re looking for, this can be a very useful starting point. The default search provided to you is Actname search. This type of research is loaded first when Kenya`s laws are launched. To perform a search, simply enter the name of the action you are interested in and click Search. The system searches for Kenyan laws based on the search term you entered. The Cap/Act number lookup works with the full Cap/Act number or just a few digits. When looking for legal information in Kenya`s laws, you often need to understand what the law looked like not only today, but also a few years ago. The nature of the law is such that it changes, and if you need to understand what was legally in place at the time, it can be quite difficult to do so. The amount of information you have to work with can be overwhelming. Therefore, we are pleased to include a very powerful feature in Kenya`s new laws, Point in Time.

This feature allows you to go back in time to see what an action might have looked like in its previously modified shapes. For example, you may need to see what the Income Tax Act looked like in 2004, well, with Point in Time, you can do just that. To use the feature, all you have to do is search for an act and load it as usual. If the law has already been amended, you will notice a “calendar” drop-down menu at the top of the law. Simply click on the drop-down menu and select a date (each date refers to a previous modified version of the act you are viewing), and the system will load that particular version. If you want to revert to the current version, click the Point in Time drop-down menu again and select the top date, which is the current version. The second search method is to click on the Cap/Deed Number tab, where you can search by Cap or Act Number. To search, enter part of the cap number of the entire cap number and click Search or press Enter. The system searches for Kenyan laws based on the search term you entered. The law name search works regardless of whether you enter the full name of the legal act or just a few letters of the name of the legal act. You can also browse the table of contents of the laws of Kenya, which contains all the laws arranged in alphabetical order.

Select the appropriate act and you can open it. The actions you click will always open in a new tab or window (depending on your browser). The table of contents lists only legal acts and no subsidiary legislation. You have to find the plot that interests you and load it by clicking on it. Once you have consulted a law, you can access its subsidiary law by clicking on the link to the subsidiary law. While it`s exciting to be able to quickly search and find laws, browse them, and navigate to related content, often once you`ve found the content you need to work with. The new Laws of Kenya database offers two ways to work with content once you`ve found it, making your job easier. First of all, you can quickly get a PDF version of the act you are viewing, just click on the PDF icon to be able to download a PDF. Secondly, you can get an RTF version that opens in your favorite word processor so you can edit the content to your liking.

To do this, click on the RTF icon and the file will be downloaded directly. The export symbols are located at the top right of the Laws of Kenya database interface. There are several ways to find content in the Laws of Kenya database. You can search by act name, act number/cap number, full-text search, or use the table of contents. A fairly high proportion of Kenyan laws are not easy to read from start to finish, there are only a large number of pages and content to flip through. The table of contents you`ll find for each act is your way to quickly jump to an area of interest. The table of contents consists mainly of parts and sections. You can find a list of parts, if any, when you load a law. Each part has a + symbol next to its name.

When you click the room name, the content is routed to the beginning of that part. When you click the + icon, the list of sections below the part is displayed. When you click the section name, the content is redirected to the beginning of that section. Each section is numbered with its section number and it`s pretty easy to track where you actually are. If you are overwhelmed by the number of sections or want to navigate to another part of the act, just click on the icon – next to the part you are looking at and the sections under that part will disappear from view. Often you will find that the list of parts and sections in the table of contents is quite long. In these situations, a scroll bar is displayed next to the table of contents, allowing you to scroll through the table of contents from top to bottom, just like you need to find the right part of the section you want to click. If you scroll down in the text or content box on the right, you will notice that the table of contents follows with you, always one click on the left side of the Kenya laws interface. © 2013 National Council for Legal Information (Kenyan Law). · | Creative Commons · Privacy Policy and Disclaimer When you click on your preferred search result, the corresponding legal act is loaded. Whatever approach you take when researching or researching legislation, you will eventually see a legal act or a subsidiary act. The way you look at and work with laws has the same means of navigation.

The legislative point of view has several areas with which you should familiarize. At the top is the Deed Title box, which contains the Act number, the Act title, and the description of the Act. On the left side is the table of contents of the Act as well as a link to subsidiary legislation, if any. On the right side is the content or area of the body in which the text of the act is displayed. In online legislation, the notion of pages is no longer applicable. Instead, you can scroll from top to bottom as if it were a single page.