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    "id": 208524,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muite",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kibugi Muite",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to strongly support this Motion and to say the following: I hope that sooner than later, we will be able to revise our Standing Orders so as to make it easier and smoother for Members of Parliament to bring legislation. This distinction between a Private Members' Bill and a Public Bill needs to be sorted out. Of course, what we have been doing is to, legally, confuse the situation. What is a Private Bill? A Private Bill, legally, is not a Bill brought by a Member of Parliament. That, constitutionally and legally, is a Public Bill. A Private Bill is one that is exclusively dealing with a particular matter. For example, the Mazrui Lands Act, or an Act of Parliament dealing with a specific matter in Kabete Constituency or in any other constituency. We have been glossing over this matter and making it very difficult, laborious, tedious and long-winded. I hope that we will have our new Standing Orders very soon so that important pieces of legislation, like this one, which in law is not a Private Members' Bill, but a Public Bill, can be fast-tracked and assistance given now that we have a Parliamentary Counsel here to do the drafting. It should be on the same footing as a Bill introduced by the Government."
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