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    "id": 152097,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/152097/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wako",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 208,
        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
        "slug": "wakoli-bifwoli"
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    "content": "The first amendment that is being sought is an amendment to the Interpretation and General Provisions Act. This amendment was necessitated by the provisions on the Grand Coalition which, because it has 40 Ministers, a number of Ministries, which traditionally have been single Ministries, were split. Creating those Ministries touched on legislation that was being implemented by certain Ministries. Just to give an example, the Ministry of Health was split into the Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. It is the Ministry of Health which was administering the Public Health Act. If you look at the definition of who was supposed to implement that Act, you will find that it was the Director of Medical Services. This is reflected in 23 different legislations, which came under the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. Therefore, if we do not have these amendments, we will have to bring amendments here to delete the Director of Medical Services and substitute thereto, a new post that has been created of Director of Public Health, and which now is referred to by 23 different legislations. It may very well be that by the time we have carried out amendments to these legislations, again, the Ministries will have been merged into one, as this House has been asking. So, this is an amendment to allow that office to work without necessarily having to amend the different legislations."
}