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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second one is a Report of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on a Petition to the Senate by Mr. Paulo Mosbei and 19 others concerning historical injustices suffered by the Torobeek Community. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these two Petition Reports were dealt with at length by the Committee. The first Petition by Mr. Nayan Savla was presented to the House on 3rd May, 2023, and thereafter committed to the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights for consideration. The salient issue in the Petition was failure to develop, launch and operationalize a Victims Rights Charter as required under Sections 19(4) and 32(2) of the Victim Protection Act No.17 of 2014. Ancillary to this were questions on the establishment of the Victim Protection Board as an incorporated body and the operations of the Board since its establishment in 2016. In considering the Report, the Committee met with the Petitioner where we sought to establish and understand the background to the Petition. The Petitioner, as a victim of crime, felt that he would have received much better assistance from the State if the operations of the Act had been operationalized. As I said, Mr. Salva is a victim of crime and he sought for support and assistance from the relevant Government agencies. It is unfortunate that he was unable to be assisted thus leading to his option to approach this House in the form of a Petition. The Committee further engaged the Office of the Attorney-General and the Department of Justice who submitted written responses to the Petition. A summary that was received had the Committee committing itself on deliberating on the same. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having considered the submissions by the Petitioner and the response by the Office of the Attorney-General, the Committee made various observations, which are set out at Chapter Three of this Report. I will definitely not go through each and every chapter of this particular Report. Of importance is the observation that the Committee arrived at. The first one is that the Regulations to establish the Victim Protection Trust Fund were yet to be approved by the National Treasury under the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act No.18 of 2012, and that victim services were yet to be rolled out across the counties as envisioned under the Victim Protection Act. Arising from that observation among others, the Committee made two key recommendations- (1) That the Office of the Attorney-General and the Department of Justice to set up a working group on implementation of the Victim Protection Act No.17 of 2014 and review the Draft Victim Rights Charter, the Draft Victim Protection General Regulations and the Victim Protection Trust Fund Regulations and to submit a status report to the Senate within three months of tabling of this Report. (2) That within six months of tabling of this Report, the Office of the Attorney- General and the Department of Justice to submit the Victims Protection General Regulations and the Victims Protection Trust Fund Regulations for approval by the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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