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    "id": 974711,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriation Committee has just walked into the House. Yesterday, you made it very clear that if people want to consult - whether they are pro-reggae or anti-reggae - they have places from where they can consult. He is really disturbing me. He should go and use the facility. We want Members, whom laws did not pass through their committee, to understand this: You cannot just come now and want to disrupt the whole session of the House. Clauses 4, 5 and 6 of the Bill seek to provide for amendment of Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Registration of Documents Act, Cap 285. This includes electronic documents and various forms of electronic signatures, to authorise the Registrar of Companies to establish and maintain the principal and Coast registries in physical and electronic form. So, if you are an investor out of the country, this will give you an opportunity to sign a contract. You do not need to fly all the way to Kenya. You can use the electronic form of signature, once you agree with your contact person in Kenya, to sign the contract. The whole of that section is trying to amend Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Registration of Documents Act. Clauses 7 to 10 of the Bill propose to amend Sections 2, 5, 30 and 32 of the Survey Act, Cap 299, to include the definition of various forms of electronic signatures to provide for the sealing and security features of electronic documents that have been processed under the Act. This again is to allow the lodging of documents under the Act in either physical or electronic form and to incorporate the electronic affixtures of the seal of the Surveyor of Kenya. To make sure that we do not carry documents all along, we want to create both systems. It went through the Departmental Committee on Lands and I am sure either the Chair or a Member of that Committee is going to speak to that. I do not want to go through the Bill because the various Chairs and Committee Members are here. Clauses 18 to 23 of the Bill provide for the amendment of the Land Registration Act to include the definition of the various forms of electronic signatures, to remove the requirements for land rates certificates, to be obtained before an instrument transferring is done. Hon. Speaker, clauses 28 to 33 of the Bill propose to amend Sections 35, 37, 42, 43 and 49 of the Companies Act. This is just to eliminate the use of a company seal as a means of authenticating a company’s documentation. This means the document is valid, executed by a company if it is signed on behalf of the company by two authorised persons. So, the whole of this set of amendment to various statues is just to improve the ease of doing business in our country. We were at position 136 out of 190 in 2014. We are now at position 56 out of 190. We are number three in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even as I speak, the World Bank is sending questionnaires to businesspeople. Therefore, once these laws are amended, we want to be among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of ease of doing business and maybe number one in Africa."
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