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    "id": 679462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "immediately after the words “provisions of the” and substituting therefor the words “Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act, 2015”.” The reason why the Committee of the National Assembly has rejected this Senate amendment is that the amendment seeks to change the name of the Act from “Environmental Management and Coordination Act, 1999” to “Environmental Management and Coordination Act, 2015”. This amendment should not be adopted as the Environmental Management and Coordination Act, 2015 was not repealing the Act but rather amending the Act. The Committee is saying there was no repealing; what was done was just an amendment to the same Act. The Act, therefore, remains the “Environmental Management and Coordination Act, 1999”. Finally, the Senate proposes that Clause 77 of the Bill be amended by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (a):- “(aa) The land in sub-section (a) shall not include government settlement schemes already registered before the commencement of this Act.” The Committee rejected this proposed amendment from the Senate on the basis that it seeks to exclude Government settlement schemes from the category of land registered as forest reserves. The amendment should not be adopted since Government settlement schemes do not fall within the description of forest reserves. Further, Section 134(2) of the Land Act provides that settlement schemes shall include provisions of access to land for squatters. I am sure the Chair of the Committee will give us the reasons why they have agreed with a number of the Senate amendments. With those remarks, Hon. Speaker, I beg to move. I request Hon. Amina to second."
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