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    "content": "Hon. Members, you will recall that on Wednesday, 30th April 2025, I reported to this House a Message from His Excellency the President, notifying that in the exercise of the powers conferred under Article 115(1) (b) of the Constitution, he had referred the Conflict of Interest Bill (National Assembly Bill No.12 of 2023) and the Anti-Money Laundering and the Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.5 of 2025) back to Parliament for reconsideration. I did refer the memorandum containing the President’s Reservations to the two Bills to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for consideration. I also advised that the consideration of the President’s reservations to the two Bills by the Committee and indeed the House shall, in so far as necessary, be guided by the Speaker’s Communication of 28th July 2015 on the Consideration and Scope of the President’s Memorandum. The Committee has since laid on the Table of this House its report on the consideration of the President’s Memoranda to the two Bills. With respect to the Anti-Money Laundering and the Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Committee has recommended that the House concurs with the President’s Reservations to the Bill, albeit with amendments. Article 115 of the Constitution empowers the House to propose amendments to the President’s Reservations, either fully accommodating them or not fully accommodating the reservations. Where proposed amendments fully accommodate the President’s Reservations, the amendments only require to be supported by a simple majority of Members of the National Assembly present and voting. Conversely, where such amendments do not fully accommodate the President’s Reservations, the amendments require to be supported by at least a two-thirds majority of Members of the National Assembly to be carried. I have determined that the amendments proposed by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to the President’s Reservations to the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025 do not fully accommodate the President’s Reservations. In this case, the threshold must be realised for the amendment to be carried. Otherwise, the House will be deemed to have concurred with the President’s Reservations to the Bill. In other words, if a vote on the amendment is called, whoever wants to carry the amendment must garner a super-majority of the membership, which is two-thirds of the whole House regardless of who is here, including Hon. Koimburi. It is not just limited to those who will be present and voting."
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