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    "id": 933971,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/933971/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 12849,
        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "THAT, Clause 8 of the Bill be deleted and substituted with the following new clause: Duty of head 8. (1) Where a learner admitted in an education centre fails to attend teacher. the education centre, the head teacher shall, in collaboration with the village administrator, cause an investigation of the circumstances of the learner’s absence from school. (2) Where the head teacher finds that there are no reasonable grounds for the learner’s failure to attend school, the head teacher shall⎯ (a) issue a written notice to the parent of the learner requiring that parent to comply with the provisions of this Act; and (b) submit a report on the learner to the County Education Board. (3) A parent who without reasonable cause and after a written notice from the head teacher, fails to comply with a notice under subsection (2) commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both. The reason is that the amendment seeks to conform to the term “learner” as used in the various legislations in the education sector. The amendment also serves to ensure similar penalty to a parent or guardian in respect to the offences or failure to take a child to school as well as failure to comply with notice from the teacher to ensure the attendance of a child in school. All the offences are similar and, therefore, they should attract the same penalty. I am moving this to ensure that the terms used in the Bill cut across, not changing from learner to pupil and later on penalties change, yet the offence is the same."
}