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"content": "This is something that we may need to discuss and think critically about. I know the Clerk-at-the-Table now used to be a legal drafter back in the earlier days of his career. He still is, but he did it formally then. I know now he is a big man and he does not do this kind of job anymore. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we make amendments to mother Acts, many are times we quote them in the Bill, but do not refer, such that making comments or even a plain reading of the Bill is difficult because unless you are carrying the mother Bill on one hand to keep on referring to, you can sometimes lose track of the arguments that you are making. For example, as I have pointed out in this Bill, Clause 8, is an amendment to Section 40 of the mother Act. New Cause 3 is being introduced and you are told it is being added immediately after Subsections 1 and 2, which is not part of the Bill in reading. I find that perhaps legislators will end up missing the flow of what is being described. You may not necessarily have to capture it on the Bill, but maybe it can be somewhere in the annexures. There has to be a better way of drafting these Bills, as opposed to what is being said. Back to the main point, the New Clause 3 that is being included reads:"
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