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    "id": 901341,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/901341/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Machakos Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Victor Munyaka",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Victor Kioko Munyaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Our Committee was supposed to deal with two proposed amendments with regard to the Tourism Act No.28 of 2011. As the Leader of the Majority Party indicated, the amendments are meant to cure some ambiguities that exist in the Act. In the definition, the word “university” is missing. We know that we have many universities offering tourism and hospitality programmes. Therefore, there is need for including in the definition what “university” means. This is further addressed through another amendment to Section 68(f), where another ambiguity exists. Here, training institutions are mentioned without making reference to university. So, our amendments are matters of definition. We met two stakeholders who gave their opinions. The first stakeholder was the Tourism Professional Association, whose representatives proposed entrenchment of the association in the Tourism Act. We found that we could not accommodate them in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. We advised them to propose a substantive amendment to the Tourism Act. So, we dropped their proposal for entrenchment of the Association in the existing Act. We also met representatives of the Association of Private Universities in Kenya, who agreed with the Government’s proposal that we need a definition of “university” so that they do not appear to be discriminated against by the Tourism Act. Generally, we agreed with them in terms of introducing the term “university” in the Tourism Act. They also came up with other proposals, which we rejected because they are contradictory to the Tourism Act. So, that is what we did. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
}