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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to add a small rider to what Mr. Musila has just finished with. I want us to remind ourselves that one of the reasons given for the start of the French Revolution of 1776 was the remark attributed to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, when people were rioting about the cost of bread. She said that they should be advised to eat scones instead. I am saying that to support what Mr. Musila has said about the importance of us appreciating the issues that affect the common mwananchi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Musila has already talked about the issue on the Pensions Act. I had already marked to talk about it as \"the Musila (Amendment) Act. It is true that we passed that amendment here. It is only fair that the Government, through the Ministry of Finance, puts in place all the relevant provisions of those amendments which we enacted here. We can also off-load from ourselves, as Members of Parliament, the various demands by our constituents to go and chase pension payments for them. I think, through that amendment, we actually created a procedure by which persons just about to retire would provide information to the Pensions Department so that by the dates when they are due to retire, the issue of their pensions is sorted out. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if it is not ready for whatever reason, as read out in the provision, then they be retained until such time as the Government would pay them what is due to them. Therefore, we ask the Minister for Finance, as Mr. Musila did, to please consider 3996 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 18, 2007 implementing the provisions of that amendment to the law. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not intend to repeat what has been said by other hon. Members, but there is an important provision that the Minister is seeking to introduce. I want to make this observation. The Finance Bill, as Mr. Sungu said, is indeed, in stature, similar to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, because it seeks to amend several other Acts, particularly with regard to issues to do with licensing and taxation. Therefore, it is one of those Bills that we need to pay very serious attention to. There is the proposal to amend the Traffic Act, Cap.403 in Section 6. They want to make a provision that for any person who is insured, if the vehicle has been written-off, you will be required to return the logbook, that is the registration book, and the number plate to the Registrar. It is a good proposal because unless we put that in law, we will continue seeing double registration number plates. We shall see plates baring numbers of vehicles which have since been written-off. I am only going to ask the Minister to consider it because I have seen that the requirement was put, but---"
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