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    "content": "Any offender will face the full wrath of the House as this would be considered grossly disorderly conduct that may attract the expulsion from the Sittings of the House for a period that, under Article 103 of the Constitution of Kenya, may lead to loss of a seat by a Member. Thus, Members are reminded that certain actions that we take for granted have grave implications and consequences. Attempts to take away maces and, therefore, disgrace them have taken place in other jurisdictions with attendant punishments. In those cases, culpable Members were suspended from the House and, in some cases, from their parties for those offences. Some were even required to issue formal apologies to the House for their behaviour. For example, in 1930, John Beckett, a Member of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, was suspended from the British House of Commons for showing disrespect to the Mace by trying to leave the Chamber with it, while protesting against the suspension of another Member. In 1987, Ron Brown, then a Labour MP, again in the British House of Commons, picked up the Mace during a debate on the Poll Tax and threw it to the Floor. The Mace was damaged and Brown was ordered to pay £1,500 to repair it. When he later failed to pay the penalty read out as a pre-agreed apology to the Speaker, he was suspended from the House of Commons and his Labour Party. He lost his seat. In 2002, when hon. Keith Martin, a Member of the Canadian House of Commons seized the ceremonial Mace of the House of Commons from the Clerk's Table, the Speaker ruled that a prima facie breach of the privileges of the House had occurred and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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