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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Mungatana raised quite a number of good points. He did mention that suppose someone is under protection and commits a crime, what happens? There is no need to introduce any amendments to the Act because the law as it is suffices. In the regulations that have already been made under this law, if such a person commits a crime while under protection, then he loses protection. But there could be a case, like recently in Britain where although not a witness protection but a child protection, a child at the age of seven murdered a child of two. They were two of them and then they were given the necessary protection in jail. After thirteen years, they were released under the protection that pertains in the United Kingdom (UK) where identity, the name and everything was changed. In the process, that person again committed another offence. So, the Secretary for Home Affairs and the Minister for Justice in the UK refused to disclose the identity. But that did not mean that the person was not going to be prosecuted for the offence that he has committed. He was going to be prosecuted but now under camera. So, there are ways of dealing with these things. There are numerous ways of dealing with these things that some amendments to the Act can take all of them. Those issues are best dealt within regulations that the Minister can make or policies that the agency itself can bring in place. The Agency, under Clause 7 of the Act, says that when a person becomes a protected person, he must enter into a memorandum of understanding between the Agency and himself. In that memorandum of understanding, a number of issues that can lead to the revocation of the protection are put there. Section 7 reads:"
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