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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I do not know whether all of you were paying attention. I allowed Hon. Benjamin Langat to table two Reports of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade relating to their consideration of persons nominated to the Privatisation Commission and the Competition Authority. Looking at the provisions of Section 8 of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, the period provided for is 14 days. That includes the date the names are communicated from the Chair; the mandatory seven days for the nominees and the public to appear before the Committee; and another seven days within which to go through the entire process and present a report. Hon. Benjamin Langat, pursuant to his tabling of the Report, has avoided the setting in of the provisions of Section 9 of the same Act, which provides that if the House has not considered the report as provided for in Section 8(1) of Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, then the names are deemed to have been approved. However, if you recall, this House amended Section 13 of the Act to provide that a Committee, seized of consideration of such business, may 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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