Legal Insight: Salient points on the Public Private Partnership Bill, 2021
A new Public Private Partnership Bill, 2021 has been proposed by the Kenya National Treasury in an attempt to amend the Public Private Partnership Act, 2013. The new Bill is aimed at curing the deficiencies in the 2013 Act from the perspective of the investor. The changes have been brought about in order to ensure that the project process is clearer with tentative timelines through reducing...
Legal Alert: Acquisition Of Citizenship And Legal Status
The CS, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Dr. Fred Matiang’i issued a Press Release dated 26th May 2021 stating that the Government has launched a 60-day Rapid Response Initiative (RRI). The purpose of this exercise is to regularise the status of Kenyans who lost their citizenship prior to the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution as well as spouses &...
Legal Alert: Changes occasioned by the Employment Amendment Act, 2021
The Employment Amendment Act, 2021, No. 2 of 2021 (the Amendment Act) was assented to by the President on 30 March 2021 and shall come into force on 15 April 2021 as per the Gazette notice dated 1st April 2021.
The Amendment Act introduces pre-adoptive leave of 1 month with full pay to person(s) who apply and adopt a child in Kenya. According to the Amendment, the leave shall commence from the...
Legal Insight: Registration of Customary Marriages in Kenya What is Customary Marriage?
A customary marriage is a marriage that is conducted in adher- ence to communal customs of either a party or both parties to the marriage. Categorizing by history, we have 2 categories of customary marriages.
That is:
1. The existing customary marriages that were conducted prior to 1st August 2017
2. The new customary marriages conducted after 1st August 2017
Which law governs registration of...
Alert: Launch of the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS)
The Lands Cabinet Secretary, Farida Karoney EGH, on 21st April 2021 via her official Twitter account, twitted that the National Land Information Management System, was ‘all systems go’ , live and ready for business.
She further informed the public that the Ministry of Lands, has started registering clients with land transactions in the system. In her words, ‘the system is set to...
Legal Alert: Deregistration and Cancellation of KRA PINs for Failure to File Returns
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), in pursuant to Section 10 and 14 of the Tax Procedure Act, 2015 and Section 36 of the Value Added Tax Act, 2013 has notified the general public that all regis- tered taxpayers who fail to file returns without any shown cause shall have their PINs deregistered and cancelled f rom the KRA systems, with effect f rom 30 days of the notice.
The authority has...