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Social Health Insurance Act, 2023 🇰🇪

Kenya

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Social Health Insurance Act, 2023

Act 16 of 2023

  • Published in Kenya Gazette Supplement 193 on 19 October 2023
  • Assented to on 19 October 2023
  • Commenced on 22 November 2023
  • [This is the version of this document from 19 October 2023.]
AN ACT of Parliament to establish the framework for the management of social health insurance; to provide for the establishment of the Social Health Authority; to give effect to Article 43(1)(a) of the Constitution; and for connected purposes.

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023.

2. Interpretation

"Authority" means the Social Health Authority established under section 4;“beneficiary” means a person who—(a)is a contributor;(b)has not attained the age of twenty-one years, has no income of his own and is living with the contributor;(c)has not attained the age of twenty-five years, is undergoing a full-time course of education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment…

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