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    "id": 792746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I appreciate this amendment and it is in order. But when professionals in energy are done with legislation, they should get lawyers to help them craft the law. That way, we get pieces of legislation which will live for a longer time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, drawing from your knowledge in legislative drafting - knowing that you worked very arduously at the Attorney-General Chambers when the Chamber was the Chamber - we are running away from this provision that this legislation has provided, in our contemporary legislative-making. A good amendment such as this sub clause would have read thus: “Except in cases of islands in recognised rivers, lakes and in the exclusive economic zone, a distribution licence shall not be granted…”So that you do not have this proviso because they make the law uncertain. You do not understand the meaning the legislator had when you want to read this sub cluase. I know this is coming late, but I also do not know our policy on further amendments to an amendment by committee. I would persuade the Chair that the proper drafting of this clause would be to start this sentence: “Except in cases of islands… a distribution licence shall not---” That way, you will have very clear legislation, drawn from the lake shore, in clear English, in the Queens language."
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