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    "id": 632264,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Clauses 8 and 9 respectively provide for the appointment, through a competitive process, of the chief executive officer and the corporation secretary. Clause 12 provides for the source of funds for the Council from the funds allocated by the National Treasury as approved by Parliament, money borrowed by the Council and fees collected as revenue for the services rendered by the Council. Clauses 15 and 16 provide for the auditing of accounts and reporting the operations of the Council to the Cabinet Secretary in the required manner. Part III provides for licensing and inspection of warehouses and in particular Clause 17 empowers the Council to grant licences to warehouse operators to engage in the business of warehouse within the warehouse receipt system. Clause 18 empowers the Council to revoke or suspend a licence issued to a warehouse operator when he transfers all or part of his control over the licence, commences the process of dissolution or is dissolved, becomes incompetent or incapable of conducting the warehouse business or violates or fails to comply with this Act. Clause 20 establishes the Warehouse Receipts Appeals Committee whose functions are to, inter alia, hear appeals relating to the refusal to grant a licence, the imposition of any conditions over licence, the revocation, suspension or variation of a licence, decision of a warehouse inspector and any other decision the council made under this Bill. Clause 22 empowers the chief executive officer or an authorised officer to inspect any agricultural commodities stored in a licensed warehouse. Clause 24 authorises the chief executive officer or an authorised officer to examine the books and records of the licensed warehouses and their operators. This is in line with what is happening. People who run warehouses have not been allowing people to access those warehouses to see what they keep in those areas. This Bill is coming in just at the right time, so that this habit of people engaging in illegal business and keeping contraband goods can be dealt with. Clause 26 empowers warehouse operator to issue a warehouse receipt for the agricultural commodities deposited in their warehouse, which receipts shall be a document of title to the goods therein. Clause 27 of the Bill establishes a central registry which shall be operated by the council and shall be responsible for registering any transactions relating to warehouse receipts. It also provides that the registrar of the central registry shall be the CEO. Part V relates to the obligations and rights of the warehouse operators and Clause 30 imposes upon the warehouse operator the duty to deliver the goods referred to in the warehouse receipt to the holder of the receipt or the depositor of the goods upon its presentation. Clause 31 provides that the warehouse operator is liable for any loss incurred when he delivers goods to a person who is not lawfully entitled to their possession. Clause 33 of the Bill restricts the warehouse operator from delivering any goods in his warehouse to the owner where they have been attached by a garnishment order or another form of execution levied upon them and their owner is not enjoined in the negotiated receipts. Clause 34 creates the warehouse operator’s lien on the proceeds of the goods in his warehouse when the depositor or owner defaults in remitting the lawful charges due. Further, the clause entitles the warehouse operator to all remedies available by operation of law when the depositor defaults in remitting the lawful charges. 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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