This Legislative Update covers certain recent key developments in legislation in Kenya as at 31 October 2025. The developments we have highlighted in this edition include framework for developing, implementing, and reviewing Kenya’s integrated national energy plan, framework governing collection of taxes and duties, enhanced regulatory measures on telecommunication services, imposition of new standards levy on manufacturers, standardized licensing framework procedures within counties, structured framework for the licensing of petroleum businesses, revised electronic travel authorisation requirements, regulation of petroleum products transportation, framework governing the  licensing of construction and modification of petroleum logistics facilities, data reporting requirements in petroleum sector, and regulation of construction, licensing, and operation of petroleum retail dispensing sites in Kenya.
We have also outlined developments in the regulatory framework for importation, storage, distribution, sale, and use of liquefied petroleum gas, enhanced tobacco graphic packaging requirements, framework governing insurance professionals, strengthened statutory regime addressing money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation threats in regulatory sectors, changes affecting the ownership and control structures of licensed market intermediaries, enhanced oversight of virtual asset service providers in Kenya, affordable housing eligibility criteria and financing mechanisms, framework governing solar water heating systems, enhanced regulation of the banking sector, powers of the county governments to grant energy infrastructure licenses, regulation of health facilities regarding detention of patients and corpses, exemption from payment of immigration fees, and enhanced privatization framework.