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    "id": 602656,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/602656/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you. Notice has been given by Hon. Kaluma for amendment of Clause 35, so that there is power to punish for contempt of court where the contempt is committed on the face of the court. Any other method of dealing with contempt is already prescribed by law the way the Chairman of the Committee has put it. For that reason, all these provisions between (a) and (j) are to give the manner of dealing, if a particular person commits contempt in court while the proceedings are going. I urge hon. Members to support the new amendment by Hon. Kaluma, seeking to give the court power to punish a person because of contempt of court. Before this Bill was introduced, the court used to decide on the spot, or assume that it had such power. We now want to give the court that power, so that by law, it is allowed to punish anybody who is guilty of contempt of court."
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