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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I would like to thank Members for contributing to this Bill. But before I proceed, after listening to Hon. Wamunyinyi, I want to say something. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to make it clear and go on record that once a Bill is read the First Time and is referred to Committees, there is no law that bars any Committee from looking at it. So, Hon. Nyikal, Standing Orders still provide that if there are matters of health, your Committee can look at it and bring a Report. But, ideally, the mother Committee is always the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs because majority of them have legal terms but, I am sure each Committee has an opportunity to look at it. Secondly, when these Bills arrive from the Executive, they go through our Legal Department in our legislative organ. They look at it and they are the ones to give advice on whether the amendment is substantive or minor. I am sure our legal team must have been thorough. Coming to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 45 of 2016), I am sure there are no major issues raised on the Judicature Act. There are no major issues raised on the Advocates Act and there are changes to the provisions of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap. 64, the Prisons Act, the Explosives Act, the Income Tax Act, the Insurance Act, the Auctioneers, going down up to the Industrial Property Act. On the Children Act, I totally agree with Hon. Wamunyinyi and other Members who have spoken. We are under obligation, as a country, to set a certain piece of legislation to protect our children. You cannot just walk into Kenya, pick our children, go to the airport and take them with you. That happens in other jurisdictions. The amendment to that Act is very important as well as the one by Hon. Nyikal on the Copyright Act. It is timely. It is the same for the persons with disability. I have listened to Members on this Sexual Offences Act, 2006. I totally agree. I am sure before we come to the Third Reading, we will do something. This Sexual Offences Act talks about many issues in this Bill. It proposes to amend the Sexual Offences Act, 2006 to provide for and correct certain expressions and words used in the Act. With that, we have no problem. It 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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