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    "content": "that after elections, people forget about their campaign posters. This becomes hazardous. Posters are flown all over and create quite a problem in terms of environmental degradation. This Bill addresses very key components. The section at the beginning covers the whole spectrum of the issues that are raised in this Bill. For example, issues like entertainment, the functional meetings or any other similar event, giving an exact provision for the context of this Bill. The Bill also moves to indicate that there are certain areas where it is okay to advertise. It gives provisions of that in Clause 3(1). It says:- “This Act applies to all advertisements but does not apply to any advertising display used exclusively for any of the following purposes: (a) To provide directions to property for sale, lease, or exchange where the display is not visible from a highway (d) (iv) An advertisement displayed inside a building and not within one meter of any external door, window or other opening through which it is visible from outside the building.” The Bill balances the various situations and contexts of where you can advertise safely and where you cannot advertise safely. However, it is always very critical when you have such a Bill, especially like this one that tends to control the way advertising is done or the way people do things. Then, you must have a mechanism in place to ensure it is done that way. This Bill creates a committee, the County Outdoor Advertising Committee. It is a small committee of five members who are very well selected. One Member who is a County Executive Committee Member in charge of advertising and another Member is a County Executive Committee Member in charge of environment. This is because these two sectors intertwine very closely. Therefore, someone who has that background of what it means, how and what sort of adverts to put into place becomes very critical for this committee. We should also have someone who is aware about environmental issue so that they can see where there will be a negative impact in terms of environment and then they might advise on the same. Madam Temporary Speaker, I can see that the business community’s interest is taken care of. There is gender balance because we have a man and a woman. We also have one public officer. It is a concise Committee, but with a lot of work. One of the pieces of legislation and pieces of work that this committee needs to do is process a licence, all the way through application, considering and even revoking. This Bill does not mean that once you have been given a licence, you can do what you want for a particular period in excess of ten years. One is going to follow a process for that licence, but once they have it and things change, for instance, if the advertisement was not in a school compound and suddenly a school is erected, then that licence can be revoked. That is important so that it takes care of the dynamism and changing situations that might come as a result. When that committee is in place, an application needs to be made, the time frame specified, consent has to be given, the locality and a planned position of what you want to display has to be well articulated. Going through all the provisions of Clause 5, they clearly indicate that, at the end of the day, this committee is very careful to contextualize The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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