ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Hide, Skin and Leather Trade Act
20. Rules
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
20. Rules
The Cabinet Secretary may make rules generally for the purposes of improving the quality of hides, skins, leather and leather goods produced, prepared or sold in, or exported from Kenya, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for all or any of the following purposes—(b)requiring returns to be made by buyers, importers, exporters, leather tanners, and leather goods manufacturers and prescribing the person to whom, and the form in which the returns shall be made;(c)regulating the grading and classification of hides, skins and leather, and defining the grades and classes thereof;(d)regulating the manner and method of marking or labelling hides, skins and leather for export or denoting the grade, type and district of origin of the hides, skins and leather;(e)prohibiting or controlling the movement of hides, skins, leather and leather goods—(i)from one part of Kenya to any other part of Kenya; or(ii)from any part of Kenya to any neighbouring country; or(iii)from any neighbouring country through Kenya to any port or place of export;(f)prohibiting, regulating and controlling the offering for sale or the buying or the export or import of any kind of hide, skin, leather or leather goods or any hide, skin or leather not prepared in the prescribed manner, or which is not in a prescribed condition, or which has been so mutilated by brand marks or damaged in any other way as to render it in the opinion of an inspector unfit or unsuitable for sale, purchase or export or import;(g)providing for the imposition of a cess or tax on hides, skins, leather and leather goods, either generally or on any specified grade or class or type of hides, skins or leather or leather goods;(h)prescribing the conditions under which a person may deal in green hides and skins and regulating and controlling the issue of, and prescribing the conditions to be attached to, any licence for buying or dealing in green hides and skins;(i)regulating the prices to be paid to producers for the various grades and types of hides, skins and leather;(j)regulating the relationship between the prices to be paid for the various grades of hides, skins and leather;(k)prescribing, regulating and controlling the methods which may or may not be used in preparing hides and skins;(l)defining the meaning of shade or suspension dried hides and skins;(m)prescribing the method to be employed in the treatment of hides and skins with the object of preserving them or of improving their general quality, either before or after they are dried;(n)requiring buyers, exporters and importers in specified areas to—(ii)preserve the registers for a period of not less than five years from the date of the last entry therein; and(iii)produce the registers for inspection when called upon to do so by an inspector;(o)prescribing the ports or places through which the export and import of hides or skins or leather or leather goods shall be permitted;(p)prescribing the method to be employed for the marking or labelling of shade and suspension dried or salted hides or skins indicating the actual place of origin;(q)prescribing the condition under which a person may deal in semi- processed and finished leather, and regulating and controlling the issue of, and prescribing the conditions to be attached to any licence for buying or dealing in semi-processed or finished leather;(r)prescribing anything required under this Act to be prescribed;(s)providing for the establishment of an advisory body to oversee matters incidental to the processing of and trade in hides, skins, leather and leather goods;(t)generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act.