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    "id": 1003992,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, thank you for allowing me to continue moving the Bill. The Bill proposes to put in place procuring entity to ensure priority is given to the payment of outstanding debts to the supply of goods and services for procuring entity. In this respect, the Bill provides that in determining which dates shall be given priority in a procuring entity shall have regard to dates upon which payments fell due and payments done chronologically. Madam Deputy Speaker, there will be a register. When somebody has supplied goods or services, all documentation and certification is ready and the invoice is certified to be ready for payment, it is then registered. The next process then follows. The payment by a public entity will be according to priority of how those invoices arrived. It will not be like the current system where 10 per cent is paid prior, who is the relative of who and who had vested interest in that payment and then it is prioritized. Often in counties, we have seen even supply of wares being prioritized because somebody has vested interest. Given that delay of payment of public contracts is usually compounded by dispute in terms of contract, the Bill proposes that where procuring entities disputes an invoice, the procuring entity shall, within 14 days, return the invoice to the supplier. The procuring entity shall identify in writing any defects in the invoice and require the supplier to correct them. Madam Deputy Speaker, the importance of that provision is the fact that sometimes somebody can just put your payment under the cupboard in the pretext that it has not met the requirements of the invoice. This then causes further delays. This now cures the mischief where someone uses defective invoice as a reason to delay supplier payment. There is also ensuring implementation of provisions of the law. The Bill provided that where supply has delivered an invoice to the procuring entity and the accounting or The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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