Section 46 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Board of the Authority

The Board shall have all powers necessary for the proper performance of its functions under this Act and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, shall have power...

(1) The functions of the Authority shall be to— (a) maintain a duplicate register of all health professionals working within the national and county health system; (b) promote and regulate...

(1) The Public Service Commission shall, through an open and transparent process, recruit a Chief Executive Officer who shall be appointed by the Authority. (2) A person is qualified for appointment...

(1) The conduct and regulation of the business and affairs of the Board shall be as provided in the Third Schedule. (2) Except as provided in the Third Schedule, the Authority may regulate its own...

The Authority may, by resolution generally or in any particular case, delegate to any committee of the Authority or to a member, officer, employee or any agent of the Authority, the exercise of any of...

(1) The Board may competitively appoint suitably qualified staff as may be necessary for the efficient performance of the functions of the Board. (2) In appointment of the staff of the Board, the...

The staff of the Board shall serve the Board on such terms of service as the Board, on recommendation of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission may determine.

(1) A member of the Board, or an officer, employee or agent of the Authority or any person acting under their direction is not liable for any matter or things if that matter or thing is done in good...

The funds of the Authority shall comprise— (a) such funds as may be appropriated by Parliament; (b) such monies or assets as may accrue to or vest in the Authority in the performance of its...

The financial year of the Authority shall be the period of twelve months ending on the thirtieth day of June in every year.

(1) The Board shall, at least three months before the commencement of each financial year, cause to be prepared estimates of revenue and expenditure of the Authority for that financial year. (2) The...

The Board may, subject to the approval of the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for matter relating to finance invest any of the funds of the Authority in securities in which, for the...

(1) The Board shall cause to be kept all proper books and records of accounts of the income, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the Authority. (2) The Accounts of the Authority shall be audited...

(1) The obligation to inspect, monitor and evaluate the standard of performance in all the services regulated and professionals engaged in the health sector, both public and private shall be...

Any health professionals seeking to form a professional regulatory body must adhere to the criteria prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Authority.

There shall be established by an Act of Parliament, a single regulatory body for regulation of health products and health technologies.

(1) The regulatory body shall— (a) licence health products and health technologies; (b) licence manufacturers and distributors of health products; (c) conduct laboratory testing and inspection of...

Legislation under section 62 shall provide for the granting of marketing approval only by a technically competent body after appropriate assessment has established that such a product meets generally...

(1) No person, firm or institution may engage in one or more of the activitiesspecified in section 63(1) whether by way of trade or otherwise, unless one has a valid licence granted by the single...

Any medicine, vaccine or other health product and technology intended for sale to members of the public shall be eligible for licensing only if— (a) after due assessment, it is found to achieve the...

(1) The procurement for the public health services of health products and technologies shall be undertaken in line with the Public Procurement and Disposal Act as well as the inter-governmental...

(1) The National health system shall devise and implement measures to promote health and to counter influences having an adverse effect on the health of the people including— (a) interventions to...

Pursuant to meeting the objects set out in section 68, the national government department of health shall formulate national strategic and operation policies that shall provide for measures that...

The Public Health Act (Cap. 242) is amended by deleting the expression "Director of Medical Services" and substituting therefor the expression "Director General for health", wherever it appears.

(1) All employers shall in the workplace establish lactation stations which shall be adequately provided with necessary equipment and facilities including hand washing equipment, refrigerates or...

(1) An employer shall grant all nursing employees break intervals in addition to the regular times off for meals to breast feed or express milk. (2) The time intervals referred to in subsection (1)...

There shall be established by an Act of Parliament, legislation to— (a) protect the rights of any individual suffering from any mental disorder or condition; (b) ensure the custody of such persons...

(1) The national government department of health shall formulate policies to guide the practice of traditional and alternative medicine. (2) The county executive department for health shall ensure...

(1) There shall be established regulatory body by an Act of Parliament, to regulate the practice of traditional medicine and alternative medicine. (2) The regulatory body shall, maintain a register...

The regulatory body shall institute measures for documentation and mapping of traditional and alternative medicine practice and the county executive departments for health shall facilitate the mapping...

The national government department for health shall, in consultation with key stakeholders develop policies for standardization of traditional and alternative medicine practice.

The charges levied on the practice of traditional medicine shall be approved by the Authority in consultation with statutory bodies.

The national government department of health shall develop policy guidelines for referral mechanisms and a system of referrals from practitioners of traditional and alternative medicine to...

(1) No person shall remove tissue or gametes from a human being for transplantation in another human being or carry out the transplantation of such tissue or gametes except— (a) in a duly authorized...

(1) (a) A person who is competent to make a will may— in the will; or in a document signed by him or her in the presence of at least two competent witnesses who are present when he or she signs and...

(1) A donation under section 83 may only be made for— (a) the purposes of the training of students in health sciences; (b) the purposes of health research; (c) the purposes of the advancement of...

A donor may, prior to the transplantation of the relevant organ into the donee, revoke a donation in the same way in which it was made or, in the case of a donation by way of a will or other document,...

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a post mortem examination of the body of a deceased person may be conducted if— (a) the person when alive gave consent thereto; (b) the spouse(s), child, guardian,...

(1) There shall be established by an Act of Parliament, a body to be known as the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service. (2) The legislation contemplated under subsection (1) shall provide for...

(1) The department of health shall ensure progressive financial access to universal health coverage by taking measures that include— (a) developing mechanisms for an integrated national health...

(1) The National Treasury shall, facilitate the opening and maintenance of bank accounts by the county treasuries, for purposes of operationalizing disbursements of conditional grants, donation and...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary shall pursue strategies conducive to the development and regulation of private health services and their atonement to the needs of the population. (2) The public and private...

(1) Private entities shall be permitted to operate hospitals, clinics, laboratories and other institutions in the health sector, subject to licensing by the appropriate regulatory bodies. (2) The...

Private health workers appropriately qualified to practice any health profession shall similarly be entitled to practice their profession in Kenya, subject to licensing by the appropriate regulatory...

(1) Institutions licensed under section 88 and private health workers licensed under section 89 shall irrespective of any specific conditions attached to such a licence be bound— (a) to permit and...

(1) Where appropriate, and subject to the provisions of the Public Private Partnerships Act (No. 15 of 2013), the Cabinet Secretary and the County Governors shall be entitled to enter into partnership...

(1) There shall be established by the Cabinet Secretary, a National Health Research Committee which shall be a technical committee. (2) The membership of the Committee shall be as provided for under...

The membership of the Committee established under this section shall as much as possible reflect ethnic, gender, county and regional balance and shall include membership drawn from the...

(1) The term of office of the Chairperson shall be five years, renewable for one further term of five years. (2) The chairperson may resign through a letter addressed to the Cabinet Secretary. (3) A...

(1) The Committee shall make recommendations on the development on the national research for health policy and on the various priorities to be accorded in the area of research for health in the light...