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    "content": "Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security of the National Assembly. (ii) That the Chairpersons of the two Committees will co-chair the joint sittings and the secretariat will comprise officers of the two Houses. (iii) That the quorum of the joint sittings will be the respective quorum of each of the Committees as stipulated by the respective Standing Orders. (iv)That as contemplated under Rule 96 of the joint rules, unless a decision is reached by consensus, any vote to be taken in the joint sitting of the Committee shall be by separate Houses. This will ensure that the numerical difference of the individual Members representing the Houses in the joint sittings has no effect on the decisions of the joint sittings of the Committees. Hon. Senators, Section 8(1) of the Public Appointments Parliamentary Approval Act, 2011, states that;- “Unless otherwise provided in any law, a Committee shall consider a nomination and Table its Report in the relevant House for debate and decision within 14 days from the date on which the notification of the nomination was given in accordance with Section 5”. Section 9 of the Act further states that:- “If after the expiry of the period for consideration specified in Section 8, Parliament has neither approved nor rejected nomination of a candidate, the candidate shall be deemed to have been approved”. In this regard, the period on the matter that is now before Parliament starts running tomorrow and in order to facilitate the commencement of deliberations, the first sitting will be held in the main Committee Room in County Hall, on Wednesday, 18th February, 2015, at 9.30 a.m. They should Table the joint Report on or before Thursday, 26th February, 2015, to enable the Houses of Parliament to dispose of the Report in good time. This message, therefore, together with the resume of the nominee, stands committed to the Standing Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations of the Senate, sitting jointly with the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security of the National Assembly. I thank you."
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