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    "id": 855901,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/855901/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended in the proposed amendments to the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act – (a) by deleting the proposed new paragraph (fa) in Section 2. The essence of this amendment is to seek to include employees of accountants, advocates, and their employees’ trust company service providers in the definition of the expression “designated non-financial business or professionals” for purposes of this Act. In other words, employees of those institutions like law firms and accountant firms can be required, under this amendment, to report to the reporting center when there is information about resources alleged to be proceeds of crime and so on. This proposal to include advocates as reporting institutions will encroach on and significantly affect the well settled principle of advocate-client privileges. The privileges are enjoyed by the advocates and their clients even after the relationship ceases. Without taking a lot of time on this, we are proposing a deletion to that section because this is a very serious step. It requires wide consultations. We cannot deal with this under miscellaneous amendments. That is the basis and justification of that. That is the same case in Section 48 which we will do later."
}