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    "id": 578489,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578489/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I wanted to clarify because it is in the HANSARD. So, I have made the clarification. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Business Registration Service Bill, 2015, be now read a Second Time. This small Bill follows the two voluminous Bill that we have just passed. This is part of the reform of the Company Laws in Kenya, which started in 1992. The objective of this Bill is one, to increase the efficiency in the administration of registration of companies and business related registrations which are currently under the Office of the Attorney-General or State Law Office. The department is being transformed into a state corporation and it would use the revenue it collects to improve on the delivery of service and better ways of doing business in our country. The principle objective of this Bill is to establish business registration service as a state corporation under the supervision of the Attorney-General of Kenya. What does this service do, which is important? The essence of the Company Law and the Insolvency Bill was to make Kenya a hub destination where the ease of doing business is felt? So, that corporation is established to support a competitive economy because we want to turn Kenya into a competitive economy in the region and in Africa. This will support the competitive economy and also ensure a conducive environment for doing business in Kenya. That service will be a key player to both the commercial and the business devolvement of our country. The service that this Bill envisages to establish is expected to focus on:- One, how to empower and strengthen the policy and the legal framework for all the services that it offers. That will be like a one-stop-centre where Kenyans can go and do registration of businesses, get company details and get returns in line with Article 34 of the Constitution, which gives Kenyans access to information. So, that service will improve the institutional capacity, create more efficient and effective operations within the State Law Office and, more so, within the department. It is supposed to promote customer focus delivery. If you walk today to the Registrar of Companies, what you see is lack of customer focus service. So, this is turned into a corporation where that institution is run like the private sector because it is key to the daily operations of the private sector in our country. We do not want Kenyans to be victims of cumbersome inefficient operations that goes on today at the State Law Office. So, the whole thing is turned into a state corporation to create and promote customer focus, customer delivery and enhance public awareness of the service it provides. That service will implement measures to reduce the time and the cost of starting business in Kenya. Kenyans take too long at the State Law Office and at the Registrar of Companies to register a company. We want that corporate service organization to make it very easy for Kenyans to register a company online within hours and to start businesses. The cost of starting a business must be made very cheap. That organization must streamline the work flow and the service process to ensure that there is faster registration of businesses. It will reduce the time spent in registering a company or a business. That, in a nutshell, is the principal objective behind the Business Registration Service Bill of 2015."
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