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    "content": "discusses the period review of the Senate Standing Orders. Part IV gives an overview of the proposed amendments to the Senate Standing Orders. The last Part gives the recommendations. We also have six Annexes to this report. Annex I is an outline of the proposed amendments. Annex II two is the text of the Standing Orders as amended. Annex III is communication issued by the Speaker on 15th November, 2016. Annex IV provides copies of the public advert issued on 18th November, 2016 and submissions received in response thereto. Annex V gives the copies of submissions received from various directorates and departments of the Senate. The last Annex gives the minutes of the PRC during which the report was adopted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank the following Members who were in this Committee, and spent a lot of their time to collect and collate the information that has hitherto been included in this report:- Sen. David Ekwee Ethuro - Senate Speaker and Chairperson of the Committee. Sen. Kembi-Gitura - Deputy Speaker of the Senate, Member. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Article 124 of the Constitution mandates each House of Parliament to establish Committees and make Standing Orders for the orderly conduct of the proceedings of the House, including the proceedings of the Committees. The current Standing Orders were adopted by the National Assembly on 9th January, 2013 pursuant to Article 262, Section 7 of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. The Standing Orders have subsequently been amended by this Senate on the following various dates; 27th February 2014, 25th November 2014, and 16th June 2016. This was pursuant to Standing Order Nos. 247 and 246. Standing Order No.249 requires that periodic review of the Standing Orders be carried out at least once in every term of Parliament and not later than six months which we intend to amend with this Report that I am moving; that this period is reduced to three months. This function is performed by the Procedure and Rules Committee (PRC) which is expected to make a report to the Senate recommending the Standing Orders, if any. to be amended. A Lot of reports were collected from the Membership of this House and I thank every Member that took time to rethink about the inefficiencies of some sections of our Standing Orders. I do not intend to labor to go through every part of the Standing Orders that we have so reviewed, but I will make a few comments. The main role carried out by the Committee may be classified under the main categories which are; editorial clean ups, for instance, to replace references to Rules and Business Committee with the Senate Business Committee, amendments relating to structure of the Standing Orders such as rearrangement of parts, merging, splitting, editing, and renaming of various provisions and so on in order to give the standing orders better flow and clarity. Included, is also clarification of the existing procedures and practice in the Senate, for example, by providing that a Senator who has spoken to a Motion my not move a Motion to closure of debate on the same Motion. This is for a very simple reason; you cannot really block others from expressing their views once you have expressed yours. There is also the aligning of provisions of the standings orders to the Constitution and relevant statutes; for instance, the procedure for consideration of certain instruments"
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