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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am surprised. I think she has decided to ask herself a question and give answers. These SMSs are all over. They read as follows: \"We request you, as leaders of this country, to do the right thing by supporting the Bill before the House. You are supporting your wife, mother, daughter and sister. If you do not support this Bill, then we are watching\" I want to say it here: I want everybody to watch me. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will first of all take issue with the publication of this Bill. Standing Order No.96 clearly says the following: \"Where a Bill seeks to amend any provision of an existing Act, the text of the relevant part of such provision shall either be printed or else copied and supplied with every copy of the Bill which is despatched to Members, unless in the opinion of Mr. Speaker, the amendment is formal, minor or self-explanatory.\" The amendments proposed to be made by this Bill cannot, in wildest stretch of imagination, be termed either formal, minor or self-explanatory. These are major issues. In fact, the Speaker of the House yesterday said that this is a momentous piece of legislation and, therefore, there was need for the Mover of this Bill to ensure that all portions or provisions of the laws to be amended were either printed or reproduced and despatched to Members alongside this Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that the Mover of this Bill indicated yesterday that she would be complying with that. However, our Standing Orders do not say that you publish, despatch to Members and then later comply with it. I am saying this because on page 398 of the Bill it is stated thus: \"Section 163(1)(d) of the Evidence Act is repealed.\" If it is repealed or proposed to be so repealed, in terms of Standing Order No.96, then it ought to be reproduced here. If you go through this Bill it is not there. Even on top of Page 398 of the Bill it is stated: \"Sections 139, 140, 141, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 161, 164, 166, 167, and 168 of the Penal Code are repealed.\" In as much as they have indicated what sections of the Penal Code they are going to repeal; for example, Sections 144, 145 and then they skip to Section 147; if you go to page 408 of the Bill, you will find that Section 146 of the Penal Code is included---"
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