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Licensing goes on-line |28 November 2014

Applications for a new license as well as for renewal can now be done on-line.

This follows the launch of the e-service of the Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA).

Called ‘Life at your fingertips’, the website was officially launched on Wednesday afternoon by the Minister for Finance, Trade and Investment Pierre Laporte.

Present were the principal secretary in the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) Benjamin Choppy, the chairperson of SLA Veronique Bresson, its chief executive Daniel Gappy, other board members and staff.

Set up with the collaboration of the DICT, SLA’s e-service is connected to the government’s electronic platform or gateway which already hosts organisations such as the Seychelles Revenue Commission and Planning Authority.

Congratulating the SLA for the initiative, Minister Laporte said that the organisation’s decision to go electronic is in line with the government’s strategy to improve service delivery.

He added that the government remains committed to ICT development and expressed hope that the new service will contribute in improving Seychelles’ business environment.

On his part, Mr Gappy said that the new development will provide more efficient service to the public.
“It is a pleasure for SLA to be connected to the gateway so as to provide a more efficient service to the general public. SLA is delighted to be connected to the Business Licensing E-Service. This will provide an added option to applicants wishing to apply for new or renew their trade license on-line anywhere on the island without leaving their home or office. This will in turn facilitate the application for a license, reduce internal workload, considerably reduce the time taken for approval and issuing of a business license and not to forget, an even more efficient service delivery,” he said.

The SLA boss stressed that if all documents are in order, a license can be issued 24 hours after an application is received.
He added that even with the involvement of other partners such as the Planning Authority, it should not take more than 14 days to issue a license.

The process is now expected to be quicker as the SLA will be linked with consulting agencies via the e-service which also hopes to improve transparency within the public service.

Only trade licenses can be obtained on-line for the moment. However, the SLA plans to include others in the system as from next year. Electronic payment will also be possible soon.



SLA’s e-service can be accessed on the following link: https://eservice.egov.sc. Before making use of the service, clients must however present themselves to the SLA offices on 5th June Avenue for identification and to get access to the relevant code.

“This is because some people hold the same names and this can cause some confusion,” Mr Gappy has explained.

As another form of decentralisation, the SLA has announced the setting up of regional licensing kiosks in the future as another way of preventing people living outside town to come all the way to Victoria for their licensing transactions.

 

 

 

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