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    "id": 496255,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/496255/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "(7) Any pending applications made under the written laws specified in sub-clause (1) shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of this Act and regulations This has been a very contentious clause. We have been discussing very deeply in terms of how do you replace the current mining licences that have longer durations than what is in the new Act? There are larger block sizes than what is in the new Act, and the fact that this new Act gives new provisions on health and safety, environment and commitment to community development agreements. So, we are saying that those holders who have longer mining agreements shall have to comply with the issues of employment, health and safety, management of the environment and communities in 18 months. On issues of the block size and the rest, they will do that with the maturity of the licences. This is a clause that we have yielded to the input of the stakeholders. It gives me a lot of grieve that after agreeing with the Chamber of Mines on this amendment, they still sponsored some article saying that we have denied them this right yet we have already done it in the Act. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do propose that the amendments be approved."
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