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(b) any person residing in a rural area and is in possession of a certificate of title registered in their name; (c) any person engaged in agricultural farming or business activities whose annual turnover is less than Kshs288,000 per year; (d) any person aged fifty years and over and is engaged in informal business activities; (e) any person with less than five years remaining to statutory retirement at the time of the enactment of this Act; and (f) any person diagnosed with a terminal illness by a certified medical professional.
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move- THAT Clause 10 of the Bill be amended— (a) in sub-clause (1) by deleting the words “institutional housing” appearing immediately after the words “affordable housing”; and (b) by deleting sub-clause (2). The justification is that---
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, the justification is to remove institutional housing projects from entities that will benefit from affordable housing.
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move- THAT Clause 11 be amended (a) in sub-clause (1) by deleting paragraph(b); and (b) by deleting sub-clause (3) and substituting therefor the following new subclause (3) The monies shall be allocated to county governments as a conditional grant in accordance with the Public Finance Management Act and on such conditions as may be prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for the National Treasury. The justification is to have all the monies collected for affordable housing be given to county governments as conditional grants in accordance with the Public ...
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move-
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
THAT Clause 13 be amended as in sub-clause (3) by deleting the words “the National Assembly for approval before disbursing funds out of the Fund” and substituting therefor the word “Parliament”.
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
The justification is that the proposed Bill creates a Board that should be in charge of dealing with investment programmes on all housing projects in counties. This will be
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
in conflict with the Sixth Schedule, Part II, Section 8 of the Constitution that reserves housing and development as a function of counties.
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12 Mar 2024 in Senate:
The amendment proposes, therefore, that this function be undertaken by each county, which shall submit annual investment programmes to the Senate and not to the National Assembly. Further, it proposes that each county will submit their annual investment programmes to the Senate.
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