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    "content": "Mr. Billow: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that Clause 5 be amended as follows:- (a) In sub-clause 1 by deleting the words, “to the extent of the threshold prescribed in the regulations by the Cabinet Secretary”, appearing immediately after the words “national government”, and deleting sub-clause 2. The reason why as a joint committee we have proposed this is that, if you read Clause 5 (1) it reads:- “If the actual revenue raised nationally in a financial year falls short of the expected revenue set out in the Schedule, the shortfall shall be borne by the national government to the extent of the threshold prescribed in the regulations by the Cabinet Secretary”. Our concern is that the provision that, “to the extent of the threshold and this threshold will be prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Treasury at a later date”. So, we have a risk, that long after the money for the county government has been approved, the Treasury Secretary can actually come up with a threshold that would make it difficult for us to work as a county. What would happen is that the threshold could easily be lowered. So, you remove that aspect of it. We simply want to say that if the actual revenue raised in a financial year falls short, that shortfall should be borne by the national Government. It should not be the burden of the county governments. (b) By deleting section 2 of Clause 5 which also reads:- “If the shortfall in revenue referred to in sub-section 1 exceeds the threshold prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary, the shortfall in excess of that threshold shall be apportioned”. This Section becomes irrelevant after the amendment we made in Clause 1."
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