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    "id": 677701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/677701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Physical Planning Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 46 of 2015) be read a Second Time. This is a Bill to make provisions for the planning, use, regulation and development of land and for connected purposes. This Bill gives effect to Article 66 (1) of the Constitution which provides that the State may regulate the use of any land or right over land in the interest of defense, public safety, public order, public morality, public health or land use planning. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, generally speaking, the purpose of physical planning is to allow the State to regulate how land is utilized so that our country can be safe and orderly so that people can move around, transport themselves and their goods. It is also to ensure that our health and environment are maintained. Towards this end, the Bill seeks to replace the Physical Planning Act No. 6 of 1996. It intends to provide for the planning, use, regulation and development of land in Kenya and it is divided into seven parts. In the first part, it deals with the preliminary matters, including objects of the Bill which include providing for the preparation and implementation of physical development plans at all levels of Government, the administration and management of physical planning in Kenya, the procedures and standards for development, control and regulation of land use and physical planning, the coordination of physical planning between the two levels of government, dispute resolutions and the functions of the relationship among the two levels of government and authorities. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}