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    "id": 660438,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Were",
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "In Clause 7, they asked us to delete “e” and substitute with a sports administrator who shall have retired at least two years prior to the appointment. In the initial Act, we had not indicated that requirement that the athlete must have retired two years before. We had omitted that one but in the initial draft that was agreed upon, they had required that whichever athlete that was going to be part of the TUE Committee must have retired at least two years before. That is the reason for the amendment. In Clause 8, we are saying: “The Principal Act is amended by deleting Section 26(3)”. This section was dealing with the administration and enforcement. This is where we had punishment for various offences. We had placed fines and terms of imprisonment. According to WADA, this was not the mandate of WADA or ADAK. Their take was that these are criminal issues which could be dealt with under different laws in the Republic and so this particular section was, therefore, not necessary and we had to delete it. Clause 12 was dealing with the issue of reporting. In the Act that we passed on 19th April, we had indicated that after every three months, ADAK will be doing a report to the CS in charge of sports. WADA felt that this should be expanded by not only giving a report to the CS, but also a report to be published publicly and a copy provided to WADA. We have done the amendment. As directed by you Hon. Speaker, after this session, the Committee is going to meet and go through these amendments and do some cleaning up. I have spoken to the PS, Ministry of Sports, Culture and the Arts together with the officials there and the Attorney General’s (AG) Office. We have agreed that in our 11.00 O’clock meeting, all these officials and those who were in Montreal Canada must be together so that we go through this document and come into an agreement that we have not left out anything that was agreed upon so that we do not fall into a problem where we pass these amendments and we are told that we are not compliant. Hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second."
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