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    "id": 1280402,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1280402/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended— (d) in the proposed amendments to the National Police Service Act, No. 11A of 2011 in the proposed new section 56A by— (i) inserting the following new subsection immediately after subsection (1)— “(1A) The Cabinet Secretary shall prescribe, in regulations, the procedure and safeguards applicable to a controlled delivery.” (ii) deleting the definition “authorised officer” in the proposed subsection (2) and substituting therefor the following new definition— “authorised officer” means a Gazetted officer of the rank of inspector and above;” The justification is that we need to empower the Cabinet Secretary to gazette regulations prescribing the modalities of a controlled delivery and safeguards preventing abuse of the investigative agencies. Those regulations will be brought to this House. The second proposed amendment is to limit the use of controlled delivery officers of the rank of inspector and above."
}