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    "id": 891024,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the Senate amendments to the Irrigation Bill (National Assembly Bill No.46 of 2017) be now considered. I want to urge the House from the outset to reject the Senate amendments to Clause 6 in the proposed New Section 107A(1), which unfortunately the Committee agreed with. The Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, and the Chair is here, have agreed with the amendment. Initially, the Bill as passed by this House provided that… Sorry, Hon. Speaker, I think I have a different document. Hon. Speaker, if you look at Clause 2 of the Bill in which the National Assembly and the Senate disagreed, the Committee disagreed with the definition of ‘irrigation’ to mean any hydraulic engineering process which extracts, stores and supplies water to crops or any other cultivated plants, livestock and all that. The Committee has stated that the amendments of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock supersede that because it carries more weight and scope in terms of definition. So, on that the Committee have disagreed with the Senate, the justification being that the Senate amendment to the definition of the term ‘irrigation’ and ‘licence’ are without effect. The definition of those two terms is the same as they were in the National Assembly version of the Bill that was transmitted to the Senate. So, there is nothing they have changed. They have just agreed with us. But in terms of grammatical errors, there are some differences. In Clause 3, I want to confirm that the Committee agreed with the Senate amendments subject to deletion of the word ‘for’ appearing immediately after the words ‘in the Act’. The justification for that is that the amendment does not alter the substance and the meaning of the provision, but it seeks to bring a provision into conformity with the good drafting practices. And The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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