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    "id": 827344,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/827344/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "In reiteration, on information around distribution of estate and definition of a child, we sought not to define some of the things that seemed very obvious like the definition of a child. On our part, it was an attempt to ensure that our law is not too prescriptive. As Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka rightly said, sometimes the flexibilities that are brought into what constitutes age limits for our child, for example, our children who are in school, especially those in higher learning even though they are 18, they may be considered children. Therefore, in the spirit of not being too prescriptive with the national law, we left those definitions to what already exists in the Constitution and, hence, the reason why we did not define “child”. On another note, we are grateful to Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka‟s input on the differentiation between criminal versus civil liabilities. We did not go into details of criminal versus civil liabilities in the Bill. It is a good point because the penalties can speak to either criminal or civil, natural person or other person accompanying the rest of it. We noted that and we shall make sure that the subsections under criminal versus civil liabilities are enhanced. I take note of the use of the word “good faith”. We debated this as well, however, we settled on that with regard to certain provisions. This is because we said that sometimes in a court of law, we have seen certain precedence where the judges have used good faith or reasonable effort. Thus, for lack of a better word choice, we have used “good faith” in certain places where we were not able to state specifics. We will revisit this and make sure where we have said “good faith”, certain provisions are made to ensure that undesired consequences are not created by living it too open."
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