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    "id": 1416095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended in the proposed amendments to the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Professionals Act, 2011 (No.29 of 2011)- (a) in the proposed amendment to Section 2- (i) by deleting the proposed amendment to the definition of the word “annual premises license”; (ii) by deleting the proposed amendment to the definition of the word “private practice”. We propose that we do not adopt the definition of “annual premises license” because the proposed amendment amends the phrase “annual license” to “annual premises license”. It does not amend the actual definition. Section 26 of the Act provides for registration of veterinary surgeons, not premises. Therefore, veterinary surgeons act as they are. They are the ones who are licensed, not the premises. If we adopt the definition of a premise, it means we are licensing a facility yet these surgeons are in different categories. We have the veterinary surgeons themselves and the certificate of registration of the veterinary surgeons. The Act provides for the registration of certain items. One of them is the surgeons themselves. Second is the certificate of registration of surgeons. Then, there is an application for registration as a veterinary surgeon or a paraprofessional. There are certificate holders as veterinary paraprofessionals. These are different categories. We also have the notification of particulars in the register and the licences to practise as a veterinary surgeon. There is another licence for a paraprofessional to practice under a veterinary surgeon. We have veterinarians themselves registered and paraprofessionals who are not surgeons. We cannot talk about “a premise”."
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