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    "id": 768866,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Building Surveyors Bill 2017 be now read a Second Time. The process of formulating the building surveyors legislation started in 1980s. The draft National Maintenance Policy and draft National Building Regulation was spearheaded by the Ministry of Housing which is currently the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development. It identified the role of building surveyors as being critical to the building environment and further recommended the formulation and enactment of a building surveyors legislation. Consequently, on 26th April 2011, the Ministry formed a committee to spearhead the formulation of the Building Surveyors Bill. The committee comprised of representatives from the University of Nairobi, the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, Corporate Real Estate Firms, the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development, currently a department under the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, the Ministry of Housing which is currently the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Architectural Association of Kenya and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS). The principal object of the Bill is to govern the profession of buildings surveying by providing for the registration of building surveyors and to regulate the activities and conduct of building surveyors. This Bill is divided into four parts. Part I deals with preliminary matters. Part II of the Bill provides for the establishment of building surveyors registration board with its composition and functions. The functions of the board mainly relate to the registration of building surveyors, issuance of annual practising licences and maintenance of the register of building surveyors. Part III of the Bill provides for the registrar and the register of building surveyors. The registrar shall be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the board and secretary to the board. The board shall keep and maintain a register of building surveyors registered under the Act. The part also specifies other functions of the registrar and provides for the issuance of a certificate of registration and an annual practising licence to building surveyors registered under the Act. Part IV of the Bill provides for the conditions and qualifications for the registration of building 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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