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    "id": 1348369,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I beg to move: THAT, Clause 30 of the Bill be amended — (a) by inserting the following new subclause immediately after subclause (1)— “(1A) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a member of Parliament or a county assembly.” (b) in subclause (2) by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— “(b) a reporting entity shall, within sixty days after a day on which a recusal took place, transmit a declaration of the recusal to the Commission in the prescribed form.” The rationale is that we have to exempt Members of Parliament and County Assemblies from the provisions of the clause on account of the freedom of speech and debate in legislative proceedings. The Standing Orders and the provisions of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act,2017, and the County Assemblies Powers and Privileges Act, 2017, provide adequate information on the manner of declaring interests. We also have to require public officers to declare recusal to their reporting authority, which in turn transmits them to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). We are saying that where you make recusals in writing, you do not go to EACC first. You go to your reporting authority. Then the reporting authority will be under an obligation to transmit the same to EACC."
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