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    "id": 722701,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "be exempted from the requirements set out under subsection (1). This amendment was proposed by many Members while contributing to the debate on the Bill. It is about ensuring that members of the public who get appointed to public boards become members of the institute so that they can familiarise themselves with these rules. I am, therefore, proposing that anybody can be appointed to any public board in the country. We will not block your appointment on the basis of where you come from. However, once you get to the Board, we will require you to be a member of the institute. You will be given at least 90 days to go through the required training, so that you become a full-pledged member. We will also require that during the time you are a member of a public board, you maintain your membership with the institute so that you can undergo continuous education that is required so that you can also be subjected to the discipline of the institute. Finally, for those who are nominated by other bodies, for example, if Parliament nominates a person to sit in a board as required by law, we may not require you to be a member of this Board or to go through that training. That is why we are saying, in Clause 25 that subject to the Act, where a person is appointed to a board of public entity, organ and enterprise, such person, if not a member of the institute shall make an application to be a member of the institute and undertake the prescribed training courses within three months of such appointment. They will be required to maintain the membership of the institute for the period of that appointment only. If a person appointed to such body is nominated by a public body, we will not require him to be a member of the institute or to go through the training."
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