The doing business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. It captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local firms. It provides quantitative indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labour market regulation. The statistical report in this document was derived from data collected for the project in June 2017. It captures procedures to legally start and operate a company in Kenya.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of an appropriate legal and institutional framework for the management of the environment and for the matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Every person in Kenya is entitled to a clean and healthy environment and had the duty to safeguard and enhance the environment. The entitlement to a clean and healthy environment under subsection one includes the access by any person in Kenya to the various public elements or segments of the environment for recreational, educational, health, spiritual and cultural purposes.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of export processing zones and the export processing zones authority, to provide for the promotion and facilitation of export-oriented investment and the development of enabling environment for such investment and for connected purposes. The established authority will focus on the development of all aspects of the export processing zones with particular emphasis on provision of advice on the removal of impediments to, and creation of incentives for, export-oriented production in areas designated as export processing zones; the regulation and administration of approved activities within the export processing zones, through implementation system in which the export processing zone enterprises are self-regulatory to the maximum extent; and the protection of government revenues and foreign currency earnings.

This is a parliamentary Act to promote and facilitate investment by assisting investors in obtaining the licences necessary to invest and by providing other assistance and incentives and for related purposes. The document describes investment as the contribution of local or foreign capital by an investor, including the creation or acquisition of business assets by or for a business enterprise and includes the expansion, restructuring, improvement or rehabilitation of a business enterprise. It clearly states that a local investor may apply to the authority for an investment certificate and a foreign investor who intends to invest in Kenya shall also apply to the authority for an investment certificate.

The National Agriculture Investment Plan accompanies the Agriculture Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy (ASTGS) to focus on agricultural transformation through commercialized and modern agricultural sector to achieve national food and nutrition security. It is a five-year plan to speed up agricultural development in alignment with the objectives of United Nation’s SDGs and the third medium-term plan of the Kenya Vision 2030.

The performance of the furniture and timber value chain in Kenya is crucial both to employment and growth in the country. Therefore this document is designed to provide a comprehensive value-chain analysis of the Kenyan furniture industry, including the timber sub-sector, identify the main challenges facing the furniture industry in Kenya and recommend critical interventions to stimulate the industry’s development.

Kenya’s textile and apparel sector has played a key role in anchoring the country’s deeper movement into middle income status and in serving as a source of gainful employment for its fast-growing, young population. Therefore, this report was developed to analyze the competitiveness of the textile and apparel sectors in Kenya, assess policy options, and recommend critical interventions to stimulate sector growth.

An Act of parliament to provide for the establishment and functions of the Kenya agricultural and livestock research organization, to provide for organs of the organization, to provide for the coordination of agricultural research activities in Kenya, and for connected purposes. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya agricultural and livestock research organization and also defines its functions. The functions of the organization are to formulate policy and make policy recommendations to the cabinet secretary on agricultural research, regulate, monitor and ensure that all agricultural research undertaken by research institutes and other institutions or persons undertaking agricultural research is consistent with the national priorities specified in the relevant policy documents.

This an Act of parliament to establish the Kenya plant health inspectorate service as a regulatory body for the protection of plants, seeds and plant varieties and agricultural produce; to provide that the service shall be responsible for administering several other written laws and; for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya plant health inspectorate service in Nairobi. Its functions shall be to regulate matters relating to plant protection, seeds and plant varieties, and regulate import and export of plants and plant materials.

This is a parliamentary Act that establishes a commission to purchase cattle and small stock, and to acquire, establish and operate abattoirs, meat works, cold storage concerns and refrigerating works for the purpose of slaughtering cattle and small stock, processing by-products, preparing hides and chilling, freezing, canning and storing beef, mutton, poultry and other meat foods for export or for consumption within Kenya, and to confer certain exclusive rights upon the commission, and for connected purposes. The power of the commission shall include to acquire, erect, construct, establish and maintain abattoirs, meat works, ice and refrigerating works and cold storage concerns, and to operate the same for the purpose of slaughtering cattle and small stock, preparing hides and processing by-products and chilling, freezing, canning and storing beef, mutton, poultry and other meat foods and products and eggs, whether for export or for consumption within Kenya

Regulation 11 concerns with the registration of grower with irish potato collection centers. The authority shall annually collect data on the domestic production and consumption of Irish potatoes within the country to establish levels of surplus or deficit and advise the cabinet secretary on the exportation and importation of Irish potatoes.

This is a parliamentary Act that establishes an agricultural finance corporation and to prescribe its powers and duties. The established corporation will assist in the development of agriculture and agricultural industries by making loans to farmers, co-operative societies, incorporated group representatives, private companies, public bodies, local authorities and other persons engaging in agriculture or agricultural industries.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the grading and inspection of agricultural produce to be exported, and generally for the better regulation of the preparation and manufacture thereof. Regulation 10 emphasizes that the minister may make rules, not inconsistent with this act, to provide for the inspection of animals the produce of which is intended for export, and the inspection of the premises in which animals are slaughtered, or in which produce is prepared, manufactured or otherwise dealt with; the inspection of produce, the fixing of grades, the place and manner of inspection and grading and branding of any produce and the manner in which different designations or grades of produce shall be branded or indicated, whether on the receptacle or on a certificate of the inspector or otherwise.

This is a parliamentary Act to prohibit trade in counterfeit goods, to establish the anti-counterfeit agency, and for connected purposes. The functions of the agency shall be to enlighten and inform the public on matters relating to counterfeiting, coordinate with national. regional or international organizations involved in combating counterfeiting.

This document is the revised edition of the 2008 Anti-counterfeit Act. It is an Act of parliament to prohibit trade in counterfeit goods, to establish the anti-counterfeit authority, and for connected purposes.

The regulatory document provides for the establishment of a board of agency under section 6 of the Anti-counterfeit Act. The board shall be responsible to the minister for all its powers, duties and functions under the Act.

The national forest programme has an overall goal to develop and sustainably manage, conserve, restore and utilise forests and allied resources for socio-economic growth and climate resilience. It was designed to increase forest cover, boost the forest sector’s contribution to the national economy, enhance resilience to climate change, and improve livelihoods.

This is a parliamentary Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to auctioneers, to provide for the licensing and regulations of the business and practice of auctioneers, and for connected purposes. An auctioneer is a person under section 10 of this act. The act provides for the establishment of the auctioneers licensing board. The board shall license and regulate the business and practice of auctioneers, supervise and discipline licensed auctioneers.

This is a revised edition of the bills of exchange act, 1981. This is an Act of Parliament relating to bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes. It defined the bill of exchange as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer.

This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for the registration of brands of stock. It emphasizes that any person requiring a brand shall deliver or transmit to the registrar an application in Form B in the First schedule to this Act accompanied by a fee of ten shillings for the registration of a brand; if no special combination is applied for, the registrar, if satisfied that such application is in conformity with this act, shall allot to such applicant in the order in which his application is received the first un-allotted brand standing in the register for the district in which the holding is situated on which the brand is to be used, and shall register the said brand to such applicant accordingly in form A in the first schedule to this act.