Cabinet considers several legal and policy memoranda |19 June 2020

President Danny Faure chaired a scheduled meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday June 17 at which a number of legal and policy memoranda were considered.

Cabinet approved amendments to the Government Exchange Policy for Houses and Land as well as amendments to the Companies (Amendment of Seventh Schedule) Order, 2020.

Cabinet approved for the undertaking of emergency coastal restoration and rehabilitation works along the 150 metres shoreline of Amitié, Anse Kerlan, Praslin.

Cabinet also approved the Companies (Prescribed Forms) Regulations, 2020; the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2020; and the Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Records of Customers of Prepaid Mobile Services by Operators of Public Land Mobile Network) Regulations, 2009.

Cabinet also approved for the gazetting of the Authorisation and Publication Bill, 2020 and for the Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change and the City of Victoria via the Office of the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Syndicat Interdépartemental Pour l’Assainissement de l’Agglomération Parisienne (SIAAP) and the ECOGLOBAL Foundation Tanzania for the treatment of Victoria waste water.

Cabinet also approved for the signing of a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in Science and Technology between the government of the Republic of South Africa and the government of the Republic of Seychelles.

Cabinet was briefed on a number of innovative projects conceptualised by Nisti (National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation) that will prove beneficial in tackling the effects of COVID-19 on the country.

Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Structure of the African Peer Review (APRM) mechanism for the Republic of Seychelles.

Press release from the Office of the President