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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, as you may have followed from this afternoon’s Supplementary Order Paper, the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 60 of 2022) has just been read for the First Time. At the cost of stating the obvious, this is an omnibus Bill which seeks to amend various statutes, especially where the amendments do not merit the publication of several separate Bills. I have been informed that this is not a new Bill and, in fact, majority of the amendments proposed were contained in a similar Bill that was introduced in May 2022, but lapsed in the last Parliament. For clarity, the current Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.60 of 2022), seeks to amend 58 statutes. As is the practice, I refer the Bill to the various Departmental Committees for consideration. I further direct that the main Committee of this Bill will be the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which has the highest number of statutes under its mandate. All other Committees will, therefore, forward their final reports on consideration of the proposed amendments to statutes to the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee for compilation and subsequent tabling in the House. Hon. Members, you may further recall that I had suspended Committee sittings until mid-January 2023. However, this does not preclude the House from receiving views from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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