424 Results Found
Registration of Business Names Act
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the registration of firms, individuals and corporations carrying on business under a business name, and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.
Kenya • 2006 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Micro and Small Enterprises Act, 2012
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the promotion, development and regulation of micro and small enterprises, to provide for the establishment of the micro and small enterprises authority, and for connected purposes.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Standards Tribunal (Practice and Procedure) Rules, 2012
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
The overriding objective of these rules is to facilitate the just, expeditious, proportionate and affordable resolution of civil disputes governed by the Act.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Kenya Industry and Entrepreneurship Project Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF)
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This document presents an environmental and social management framework (ESMF) for the Kenya industry and entrepreneurship project (KIEP). The ESMF ensures that the project activities are compliant with the relevant requirements of national policies, regulations and legislations as well as the World Bank safeguards policies and procedures. The objective of this ESMF is to set out the principles, rules, guidelines and procedure to assess the environmental and social impacts and monitoring to ensure that environment and social aspects are duly considered
Kenya • 2018 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Kenya Trade Remedies Act
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of the Kenya trade remedies agency in Nairobi for the investigation and imposition of anti-dumping, countervailing and trade safeguard measures and for connected purposes. The agency shall investigate and evaluate allegations of dumping and subsidization of imported products in Kenya.
Kenya • 2017 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Public Procurement and Disposal (Public Private Partnerships), Regulations 2008.
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This regulatory document defines public private partnership as a written contract recording the terms of a public private partnership concluded between a procuring entity and a private party. Subject to provisions of these regulations and the act, a procuring entity may enter into any of the following public private partnership arrangement: management contract whereby a procuring entity awards a private party the responsibility to manage and perform a specific service, within well-defined specifications for a specified period of time not to exceed five years and the procuring entity retains ownership and control of all facilities and capital assets and properties; a lease whereby the private party pays the procurement entity rent and manages, operates and maintains the facility and receives fees or charges from consumers for the provision of the service for specified time not exceeding fifteen years etc.
Kenya • 2009 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Industrial Property Act, 2001
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the promotion of inventive and innovative activities, to facilitate the acquisition of technology through the grant and regulation of patents, utility models, technovations and industrial designs, to provide for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya industrial property institute and for purposes incidental thereto and connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya industrial property institute in Nairobi. The institute shall control, supervise and administer the assets of the institute in such manner as best promotes the purpose for which the institute is established.
Kenya • 2001 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The State Corporations Act Chapter 446 Revised Edition 1987
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the establishment of state corporations: for control and regulation of state corporations; and for connected purposes. Rule 8 emphasizes that after the commencement of this Act the board of every state corporation shall meet not less than four times in every financial year and not more than four months shall elapse between the date of one meeting and the date of the next meeting.
Kenya • 1987 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Kenya Leather Industry Diagnosis, Strategy and Action Plan
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This document provides a detailed analysis of Kenya’s leather industry. It focuses on the challenges and recommends solution to them. It mentions that the leather sector’s costs of production are subsidized to the extent that government policies (and their poor enforcement) fail to force producers to internalize environmental and social costs associated with sustaining the sector, including most importantly, water resource clean up, long term health care, and natural resource replenishment costs.
Kenya • 2016 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
National Industrialization policy 2012-2030
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This framework was designed to promote and sustain a vibrant, globally competitive and diversified industrial sector for generation of wealth and employment through the creation of an enabling environment. The policy is focused on addressing the factors affecting the industrial sector, exploiting the strengths and opportunities arising from the regional integration and globalization, and positioning the industrial sector to become the leading investment destination in Africa to take advantage of investment flows. Chapter four of this document comprises of the broad policy intervention areas and respective policy measures to be undertaken, and chapter five comprises of the policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Kenya Maritime Authority Act Revised Edition 2012 [2006]
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of the Kenya maritime authority as a body with responsibility to monitor, regulate and coordinate activities in the maritime industry, and for all other matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. The principal objectives of the Authority are to regulate, co-ordinate and oversee maritime affairs.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The Insolvency BiIl,2015
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This act was designed to provide for the operation of a framework for the efficient and equitable administration of the estates of insolvent natural persons and unincorporated entities comprising natural persons, and the assets of insolvent companies and other bodies corporate, that maintains a fair balance between the interests of those persons, entities, companies and bodies and those of their creditors.
Kenya • 2015 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Landlord and Tenant (Shops, Hotels and Catering Establishments) Act
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision with respect to certain premises for the protection of tenants of such premises from eviction or from exploitation and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
Kenya • 2015 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The Companies Bill, 2015
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act to consolidate and reform the law relating to the incorporation, registration, operation, management and regulation of companies; to provide for the appointment and functions of auditors; to make other provision relating to companies; and to provide for related matters.
Kenya • 2015 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The Micro and Small Enterprises Act, 2012
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the promotion, development, and regulation of micro and small enterprises; to provide for the establishment of the micro and small enterprises authority, and for connected purposes. Regulation 5 emphasizes that every association or umbrella organization which intends to be registered under this act shall, within twenty-eight days after its formation, make an application to the registrar for registration under this Act.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Limited Liability Partnership Act No. 42 Of 2011
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for limited liability partnerships and for connected purposes. Part V and Part VI details the conversion of partnerships and private companies into a limited liability partnership and the management of limited liability partnerships respectively.
Kenya • 2011 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Law of Contract Act
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act to apply the english common law of contract to Kenya, with certain modifications.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The Scrap Metal Bill, 2014
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the regulation of dealings in scrap metal, to provide for the establishment of a Scrap Metal Council and for connected purposes. It establishes the scrap metal council. The functions of the council shall be to receive public complaints and disputes from the public and within the scrap metal industry, to receive, vet and process all applications for the grant and renewal of licenses, and to submit an annual status report on the scrap metal industry in Kenya to the cabinet secretary.
Kenya • 2014 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Local Manufactures (Export Compensation) Act
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for compensatory payments to be made in respect of certain locally manufactured goods which are exported from Kenya and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. It emphasizes that subject to this act, a person who exports eligible goods shall be paid by or on behalf of the commissioner a compensatory payment: provided that no compensatory payment shall be paid by or on behalf of the commissioner in respect of the exportation of eligible goods.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
The Special Economic Zones Act, 2015
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of special economic zones; the promotion and facilitation of global and local investors; the development and management of enabling environment for such investments, and for connected purposes. Part III of this document establishes the special economic zones authority to make recommendations to the cabinet secretary on all aspects of designation, approval, establishment, operation and regulation of special economic zones.
Kenya • 2015 • Trade, Industry, and Investment