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    "content": "Other than establishing the agency that controls and deals with doping and providing for its independence, this Bill also provides for a dispute resolution mechanism. It provides that an appeal from the decision of the agency may lie in the World Sports Tribunal (WST) and the provisions are in Clause 31. The other part I want to highlight is on the offences which are under general provisions from Clause 41 henceforth. Some of the offences the Bill creates include disobeying a summons of the agency; failure to produce any sample, document, papers or any other thing on the order of the agency; refusing to submit a sample and failure to comply with an order of the agency. It goes on to create offences like unlawfully transporting or transferring prohibited substances within or outside Kenya, stocking supplies of products containing prohibited substances and administering or applying to an athlete prohibited substances. That section is quite expansive. It includes things like using or causing another person to use prohibited substances, possessing them or being found in possession of them, administering those substances, buying, selling, stocking and transporting of those substances, et cetera . Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill gives effect to the appropriate international standards in the area of sporting. Sporting has become very competitive and it is also very lucrative. Some of the richest people in the world today and some of the most highly paid professionals today are not the traditional engineers, doctors and lawyers, but sportsmen and sportswomen. Some of them earn---"
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