President Uhuru Kenyatta signs 9 Bills into law at State House Nairobi, June 21, 2017. [Photo: PSCU]President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed 9 Bills into law.The Bills assented to include Division of Revenue Bill 2017, Finance Bill (2017), Supplementary Appropriation Bill (2017), Insurance Amendment Bill (2017), Health Bill (2015), Hydrologist Bill (2016), the Clinical Officers Bill (2016), Basic Education Amendment Bill (2016) and National Coroners Service Bill (2016).The Division of Revenue Act seeks to provide for the equitable provision of revenue raised nationally between the national and county governments in 2017/2018 financial year.The Finance Act seeks to amend the law relating to various taxes and duties. It also seeks to amend the following laws among others.The Betting, Lotteries and Gambling Act (Cap. 131) to increase the tax rates from the currents rates to 35 per cent. The Supplementary Appropriation Act seeks to authorise the issue of certain sums of money out of the Consolidated Fund and their application towards the service of the year ending June 30, 2017 and to appropriate those sums for certain public services.The Health Act, establishes a unified health system, to coordinate the inter-relationship between the national government and county government health systems. This will help in regulating healthcare services and healthcare service providers, health products and health technologies.The new Health Law seeks to define how national health policy shall be formulated, implemented and coordinated between the two levels of government.

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