Wildlife Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023

Legislative progress

Published on parliament.go.ke: April 2023

✓ First Reading 5 Jul 2023
✓ Second Reading 22 Nov 2023
✓ Committee of the Whole House 18 Jun 2025
✓ Third Reading 18 Jun 2025
● Presidential Assent 15 Oct 2025

Current status: Presidential Assent

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Notes

Source: https://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2023-04/Wildlife%20Conservation%20and%20Management%20%28Amendment%29%20Bill%2C%202023.pdf

Bill text

SPECIAL ISSUE

Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 17 (National Assembly Bills No. 3)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

KENYA GAZETTE SUPPLEMENT

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILLS, 2023

NAIROBI, 22nd February, 2023

CONTENT

| Bill for Introduction into the National Assembly-- | PAGE | |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------| | The Wildlife Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023 | 11 |

THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2023

A Bill for

AN ACT of Parliament to amend the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013

ENACTED by the Parliament of Kenya, as follows—

1. This Act may be cited as the Wildlife Conservation and Management (Amendment) Act, 2023. 2. The Third Schedule to the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013 is amended in Part A by inserting the following new words immediately after the word "Buffalo"—

"Shark

Stone fish

Whale

Sting ray"

Short title.

Amendment of the Third Schedule to No. 47 of 2013.

MEMORANDUM OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Statement of the Objects and Reasons for the Bill

The principal object of this Bill is to amend the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, No. 47 of 2013 to include sharks, stone fish, whales and sting rays among the wildlife species in respect of which compensation as a result of death and injury may be paid. This will ensure that persons who live along water bodies are entitled to payment of compensation as a result of death and injury from the specified wildlife species.

Statement on the delegation of legislative powers and limitation of

fundamental rights and freedoms

This Bill does not delegate legislative powers nor does it limit

fundamental rights and freedoms.

Statement of how the Bill concerns county governments

The Bill does not concern county governments in terms of Article 109(5) of the Constitution as it does not contain provisions that affect the functions and powers of the county governments as set out in the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution.

Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution provides that protection of the environment as well as the protection of animals and wildlife is a national government function.

Statement as to whether the Bill is a money Bill within the meaning of

Article 114 of the Constitution

The enactment of this Bill shall not occasion additional expenditure of public funds.

Dated the 22nd February, 2023.

RUWEIDA MOHAMED OBO,

Member of Parliament.

The Third Schedule to No. 47 of 2013 which it is proposed to amend

THIRD SCHEDULE

[Section 25, Act No. 18 of 2018, Sch.]

WILDLIFE SPECIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH COMPENSATION MAY BE PAID

A. Death and Injury

Elephant

Lion

Leopard

Rhino

Hyena

Crocodile

Cheetah

Buffalo

B. Crop, livestock and property damage