{"id":1147909,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1147909/?format=json","text_counter":222,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":" I am proposing a further amendment which we agreed with the Chair of the Committee. I had introduced the concept of an interested person, but we have agreed to adopt a different meaning. So, I am doing a further amendment to my own amendment. Instead of saying “an interested person”, I will use the term “a person acting on behalf and in the best interest of a child”. This means we have persons identified in the Bill as authorised people; which include police officers, children’ officers and others. You may have a situation where a neighbour sees something bad happening to a child. So, we want to ensure that such a person can also take action. So, that is a person acting on behalf and in the best interest of a child. I beg to move."}