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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, although there has been a great improvement in handling of the Bills, I got the impression that there are some Bills which the President has assented to and which really should have come to this House for debate and enactment, including the National Police Service Act . So, that is the whole purpose of this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I want to say this for the benefit of the other Committees, particularly the Chairpersons and so on. The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill is supposed to touch on all those amendments to the various Bills which do not justify a separate legislation on their own. We normally publish the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill either once or twice a year and, therefore, I would like to appeal to the Chairpersons of the various Committees that if there are some amendments which are of a minor nature and which may not necessarily justify a whole Bill, they should forward it to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. We shall then compile all those amendments and bring one composite Bill called the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. For example, the Bill which we are going to vote on now, which is just a one clause Bill - the County Governments (Amendment) Bill, 2014. That is the type of Bill that should have come to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights so that it is part of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. You do not need, as the Senate Minority Leader said, a whole Bill just to make amendments to one clause. So, please, see any Member of the Committee or any Senator, if you feel that you want to bring some amendments to some Bill. Bring it to us; if it is justified, we shall include it in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. They have already begun compiling such amendments. We hope that before the end of this year, another Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill will be crafted. Mr. Deputy Speaker, with those introductory remarks, let me now go through the amendments that we are talking about. If you look at page 87 of the Bill, the first Act that we are considering under this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, is the Cancer Prevention and Control Act (No. 15 of 2012) which was enacted. If you read the Act the way it appears now, particularly Clause 5, which deals with the functions of the institute established under that very Act; you will notice on page 100, we have set out the provisions of the Bill as they exist now under the Act so that we can now compare what we are now amending. Of course, we all know, cancer is a very terrible disease which takes the lives of very many people. Our own Senator, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’Nyong’o, has set up some institute which deals with these issues as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO). We have had our own Senators, including Sen. Beth Mugo, going to America for treatment of cancer. So, it is a disease that concerns the nation as a whole. Mr. Deputy Speaker, if you look at the functions of that institute as set out now, it says: “advise the Cabinet Secretary on matters relating to the treatment and care of persons with cancer and to advise on the relative priorities to be given to the implementation of specific measures;” The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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