The government has set in motion the process to save about 200 state agencies whose legal instruments expired last month from dissolution. Through government-backed proposed legislation- The Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Members of the National Assembly now want the expiry provision in the Act, repealed. The 1,764 agencies are presently in breach of law after their operating instruments expired on January 25, 2024, as provided in the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013. The Bill sponsored by Majority leader Kimani Ichung’wah states the statutory instruments creating the laws for the agencies will continue to operate beyond January 24, 2024. The current Statutory Instruments Act, 2013 provides for the expiry of the laws creating the agencies after 10 years unless there is a regulation seeking to exempt them from the expiry.

Source: Daily Nation February 28, 2024 13:32 UTC