<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Victor</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for sharing. Even without reading the proposed amendments I raise a serious red flag regarding the proposed abrogation of powers that have to do with regulation to the executive. What then is the purpose of a supposedly independent CA?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Pls see below, link to the Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015, which proposes to amend several laws, including KICA.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the objects and reasons:</div><div><br></div><div>Kenya Information And Communications
Act, of 1998 - Firstly to align it with the Competitions
Act, 2014 in respect of the criteria for being a dominant market
undertaking and secondly to harmonize the regulation making power so
that it is exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the
Authority. </div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>The Competition Act (No. 12 of 2010 - The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act so as to clarify that the
power to Prescribe, as specified in the Act is to be exercised by the Cabinet
Secretary in consultation with the Authority.<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#666666" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__MiscellaneousAmendmens_Bill_164of2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__MiscellaneousAmendmens_Bill_164of2015.pdf</a></font><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Victor Kapiyo</span></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#666666"><br>====================================================<br><i>“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar</i></font><br></div></div></div>
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