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    "id": 235314,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/235314/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting a new clause immediately after Clause 62 as follows:- 62C. Section 19 of the Sugar Act, 2001, is amended in subsection (2) by deleting paragraph (a). Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the proposed amendment basically seeks to delete the reference to the Sugar Development Levy within Section 19 of the Sugar Act since the money to be paid into the Sugar Development Fund will not be from the Sugar Development Levy but through an allocation by the Exchequer to the Kenya Sugar Board through the Ministry of Agriculture. I want to draw the attention of Members, especially those from the sugar-growing areas, that we have said that the Sugar Development Levy is now a tax to be collected by KRA as an exchequer issue. This money cannot go to the Kenya Sugar Board as a levy, but as a grant through the Ministry of Agriculture to the Kenya Sugar Board. The current Section 19 says there will be a levy to be collected by the Kenya Sugar Board, which cannot be done now because we have amended that. So, how do we give the money? It will have to be by amending that so that we can now pass that money through appropriation in this House by a grant through the Ministry of Agriculture. It is as straightforward as that. If you oppose this for the sake of opposing, we will have a Kenya Sugar Board that cannot receive money from the Treasury because the law does not allow it to receive the money."
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