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    "content": "public holidays. Currently, you will find businessmen flying the flag on public holidays. I am not sure under what authority, but the existing Act says that the Minister may authorize that. You rarely find private citizens hoisting, lowering or dropping the flag round their homes when it is a public holiday. Mr. Temporary Speaker, as was stated by the Mover of this Bill, in the United States of America (USA) and several other countries, the level of patriotism, loyalty and sense of identity with the national flag is such that homes are dressed with the national flag even when it is not a public holiday. In fact, you will find the national flag being a piece of decoration in homes and it is not just for the decorative value, but for the patriotic value. As you know, in the USA, there has been a great debate over the use of certain flags that were used previously and that has brought out some fault lines in the American politics. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a flag is important as a speaker who was with us yesterday told us. He said that nations are imagined through various ways and one of them is through their flags. Many people do not know that the use of the national flag is restricted. I wear lapel pin with the colours of the national flag. Mr. Temporary Speaker, you wear a lapel pin with the national flag. You might ask yourself whether you are doing it rightfully or wrongfully because the Act of 1963 places restrictions on the use of the national flag. Many people do not know that the use of certain names is restricted. If you look at the primary Act that this Bill seeks to amend, you will find that the use of the word"
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