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    "id": 578512,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578512/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Business Registration Service Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 13 of 2015). It is true we need to inject efficiency in the way we register businesses. It is also good we have an entity which is capable of suing and being sued for the role of registering businesses in Kenya. However, one of the key policies of the Jubilee administration is to reduce the number of State corporations. If you look at what the establishment of the Business Registration Service does, the Registrar of Business Registration is taking up what was before the role of the Registrar of Companies. That per se is a good thing, but I wonder if it does not go against the current policy to limit the number of State corporations. By and large, the aim of this Bill is good. We have just passed the Companies Bill and the Insolvency Bill. If we pass the Companies Bill, the mode by which companies should be run and how companies should be registered - and we do not make the process of registering companies efficient - will be a futile exercise - abinitio . We are trying to bring more efficiency into the laws and other matters relating to the registration of companies, partnerships, firms, individuals and corporations carrying business under business name, bankruptcy societies, hire purchase, trade unions, chattel transfers, adoptions, coat of arms, books and newspapers, the national symbols, emblems and names. This is a good Bill. It is in tandem with the fact that we are now a devolved society. Clause 3 (3) says that the headquarters of the service shall be in the capital city, but the service can establish branches in other parts of Kenya to ensure reasonable access to its services. I think we should be more emphatic here."
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