Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 432136,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/432136/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 383,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": ". Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended- (a) In Sub-section (3) by deleting the words “the Finance Bill” and substituting therefor the words “a legislative proposal”; (b) In Sub-section (4) by deleting the words “the Finance Bill by the Cabinet Secretary, the relevant committee of the National Assembly shall introduce the Bill in the National Assembly together with the report of the committee on the Bill” and substitute therefor the words “the legislative proposal of the Cabinet Secretary, the relevant committee of the National Assembly shall introduce a Finance Bill in the National Assembly.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if you look at the main Act, there was confusion. When the Cabinet Secretary comes and brings the Division of Revenue and the County Allocation of Revenue proposals, they are not Bill. This is just a change of names. They do not bring the Bills. They bring the legislative proposals which then become Bills. They are then published and presented before this House, for example, by the Leader of Majority Party, the Chair of the Committee or any other Member for that matter. This is just to correct the misnaming, that what the Cabinet Secretary brings is not a Division of Revenue Bill; it is a legislative proposal about the division of revenue which then becomes a Bill once it is published by a Member of Parliament. It could be Leader of Majority Party, Chair of a Committee or any other Member for that matter. Actually, 2C is under 2A. But it is broken down into--- It is just about naming. If you look at 2C, we are simply saying when the Cabinet Secretary brings what we have been calling Finance Bill, it is not a Bill at that stage until it is published. So, it is just to say, when the Cabinet Secretary brings the Finance Bill, it is a legislative proposal which then becomes a Bill when it is published in Parliament. So, it is just about the names and hon. Duale knows it better."
}