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"content": "Order, hon. Members! Take your seats first. I do not have to keep you standing. It is good that hon. Members listen very carefully to what I have to say here. Earlier on in the day, I pointed out to the House that at 5.00 O'clock, which is now, I will call upon the Leader of Government Business to Table before the House the names of nominees to the East African Legislative Assembly pursuant to the rules which are derived from Section 50 of the Treaty for the East African Co-operation. Those rules were tabled in this House on 3rd October, 2001. They were moved, seconded and concluded on 11th October, 2001. It may help this House to just go back to the genesis of the rules, where they are derived from and where they are. Hon. Members, those who are interested will find out that in this House, a Paper or a document was laid as Document No.50 on Tuesday, 17th July, 2001. Those were rules drafted by me and my staff to guide this House in the election of membership to the Legislative Assembly. This was a new thing. They had not done it before. So, I and my staff prepared those rules, which were tabled here on 17th July, 2001. I have a copy of the rules here and for the benefit of the hon. Members, the public and the Press, I would like to make the rules available again at the Table. The rules have a bearing on what is likely to happen here. In those rules, which were tabled, as I said, on 17th July, 2001, we had made elaborate rules for the election of membership to the East African Legislative Assembly, concluding the definitions to various things like elections, nominations, party, standing officer, voter and things like those. We had also set out in Part 1 of those rules the qualifications in detail and the nomination procedure for candidates. We also set out in Part 111 the election procedure and voting, including ballot vote on the Floor of the House. We had also made provisions for voiding the elections in the event of certain occurrences. Of course, there are also miscellaneous provisions. As I said, those rules, which I will make available to the House, were tabled by the Minister for Trade and Industry on 17th July, 2001. Apparently, the House did not like the rules. After they had studied them, the House Business Committee met and made other rules, which are now the current rules. These rules were drafted and tabled on the House on 3rd October, 2001, and adopted by the House on 11th October, 2001. Those are now the rules of the House. The rules that were adopted by the House ensured that the House, as such, had no role to play in the election of those hon. Members. Once the House Business Committee tables the names under Rule 8 of the rules that were adopted by the House, and once it has made its decision and communicated to this House through a Ministerial Statement by the Leader of Government Business, the candidates whose names will be tabled will be deemed to have been elected. That is what you decided against the very wise counsel of Mr. Speaker. So, those are the rules."
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