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    "content": "in, whereas we should actually be using an amendment to the Penal Code or within Miscellaneous Amendments, where this House will have adequate time to deliberate on the matter. He is basically talking of “a police officer will be able to or may arrest and thereupon confiscate any offending material.” By this coming through the Finance Bill, we will then be asking the Minister for Finance: “Since it passed through the Finance Bill, how far have you implemented these provisions.” This is because the route through which a matter passes also has a bearing on the person responsible for implementing the law coming through that route. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I believe in the last Parliament, the Speaker at that point did rule that there are matters that cannot be brought through the Finance Bill, unless they have come directly from the Treasury. This is because the Treasury now knows that they are also responsible for the oversight of those matters. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, on that basis, I would like to persuade the House that we remove this matter from here and then get the route for it to come in, so that by the time we amend the appropriate law – the Copyright Act – which is not administered by the Ministry of Finance, we will also have the Minister in charge of the Copyright Act and the Committee in charge of looking at these matters. They will be given the advantage of looking at this amendment and then guide us accordingly in terms of: Is this what we should be doing or should we be doing more or less? Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, it is more of deferring this matter rather than opposing it. Let us get the appropriate route to effect this amendment, so that we are actually not seen as if we are hijacking the Bill that is with us in the Committee, to pass a law that should be coming through another Bill."
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