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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, I have a copy of the Final Draft of the Business Regulation Bill. This is the Bill that is going to sort out all our trade issues and problems. In this Bill, it is required that before any body makes any regulations that deal with licensing, those regulations must be approved by the Business Regulatory Authority, which is proposed to be set up. Secondly, the Bill requires all the bodies that issue licences to justify the regulation that is in their requirement. It also specifies that after seven years, all those regulations will lapse, unless they have been re-introduced. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you find that some business regulations that were established in the year 1900 are still in our Statute books. So, this is the Bill that is going to sort out all those issues. It is the Bill that will legally empower the Registrar of Companies to register businesses electronically. The Bill will require land registries to do registration electronically. We want to borrow from the best practice, particularly on land registries. In Norway, you do not present any paper physically. You do everything electronically. You do not get a physical title. You get an electronic title. That is what we want to achieve, and this is the Bill that is going to sort out all these issues. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to answer the hon. Member’s question, the main problem is the existence of very many regulatory bodies that issue licences, particularly the local authorities, which keep on adding more requirements every year. This also applies to the Ministries. Another problem is that this is also not done in a co- ordinated manner. For example, recently, we had the Ministry of Agriculture imposing Ad Volem Duty on tea without having consultations with anybody and, therefore, causing problems in the tea sector. So, we require this Bill before any Ministry, local authority or county government imposes a business requirement that is approved by this authority and they must justify why they need that requirement."
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