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"content": "even know, until that particular day. We even had somebody representing American Football. So, it was quite an eye-opener. I want to assure everyone who appeared before the Committee that we took note of the contributions that they had presented before us. We will be presenting certain amendments during the Committee of the Whole of this Bill, so that we capture the intent and the spirit of this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you look at the clauses on the object of the fund, during publication, we had included financing the development of sports facilities including stadia, gymnasiums, buildings and tracks at Clause 54(c) and (d). At the Third Reading, we will be striking out any reference to infrastructural development. This is because as I have said, one per cent of what goes to counties is not sufficient to do any serious sporting infrastructure like stadia. We want this to be clear that it is only financing the operations of registered sporting associations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have provided for an administrator of the Fund who we have designated as the CEC, responsible for sports in all the counties. They are the ones who are supposed to supervise and control administration of the fund. We have also provided for eligibility criteria. It is not for everyone. There was a worry, especially from the county governments, that if you set aside money, you will have all sorts of people claiming to be representatives of various sports coming up and saying, oh, we are the ones who are supposed to secure funding. Clause 54(e) says that for you to be eligible to apply for funding, you have to be first registered as a county sports association under the Sports Act. There was a very interesting conversation during public participation hearings on this Bill. If you look at the Sports Act, it provides for registration of national and county sporting associations. However, there is only one sports registrar and it is a national office. One of the proposals we will be making is that we also need to devolve. Looking at the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, sports is a county function. It is a devolved function. There is no reason for having a sports registrar at the national level to deal with a devolved function. We will be proposing that each county must have its own sports registrar so that they register the county sporting associations there. Those are the only people who will be eligible for funding under the Act. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one will be required as a registered sporting association in the county to have an annual work plan aligned to the strategic plan of the association. We will have other criteria as will be set by the CECM and the Board. It provides that every 30th of August of each year, the fund administrator, who is the CECM, will issue a budget circular for the Fund to the eligible persons, indicating the ceilings for funding under sports and sports development, priority programmes, projects and activities to be funded in the financial year. When one makes an application, we have provided that they have to submit certain documents. Number one, you have to show us a certificate of registration issued under the Sports Act. Third, in addition, an annual work plan aligned to the strategic plan of the association. A statutory declaration of the programmes to be funded through other sources. Also to be submitted are details of the bank account and signatories and so on and so forth. Every recipient of funding under this programme or under this Fund, shall submit quarterly and annual progress reports of the programmes, projects, activities funded by the Fund and also allow monitoring and evaluation of the programmes, projects and activities of the fund. If you do not utilize any amount of money that has been given to you in a particular financial year, you will be required to return the unutilized funds. We believe and we were told during public participation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
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