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    "id": 573957,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/573957/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1750,
        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "The power of registration lies with the Registrar. The Registrar is allowed to make a company change its name, for example, when the name suggests that the nature of the company’s activities are misleading and are likely to cause harm to the public. I have looked at the way many businesses operate. One of the common term people use in their companies is “Enterprises”. You can imagine a situation where a company is registered as auto but it sells clothes or it is registered as a construction company but it offers training. This Bill is going to bring sanity because these are things we have seen in the past. When you are auditing situations, you wonder why a company that is dealing with construction would also be training. It could be training on things that are totally unrelated to construction. We are going to bring sanity in our companies so that the names are clear. The names should communicate what the companies actually do. It is also clear from this Bill that there is protection of companies that do not want to change their names. These companies can only be made to change their names within the first five years so that we are sure that it is not an afterthought that comes as a result of successes that are triggering jealousies from other quarters. The companies also have recourse because they can go to court to quash orders to change the name. All this is provided for in the Bill. Failure to comply with the directive of the Registrar when he or she asks you to change the names of your company will also attract penalties of not more than Kshs200,000. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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