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    "id": 954963,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/954963/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": " I rise under Standing Order No.49(1) relating to certain Motions that may not be moved. As you are aware, this Finance Bill, in Clause 43, seeks to amend Section 33(b) of the Banking Act. It has recommended a repeal of that Act. I sponsored the Banking (Amendment) Act in 2016. It was made into law. There was a court ruling on 14th March 2019. It was about the clarity of the Bill and certain clauses that were ruled to be unconstitutional. The court suspended that ruling for 12 months and gave this august House an opportunity to rectify the anomalies that were in that law. We have been discussing or debating this law. That law was being debated in this House up to this morning. The Clerk of this House also gave me a lot of assistance to ensure that we have made the necessary corrections that were required by the court of law. My contention or worry here is that there is a lot of work that has been done on this Bill. It is still under a Motion. Standing Order No.49(1) says no Motion may be moved which is the same in substance as any question which has been resolved either in the affirmative or in the negative, during the preceding six months in the same Session. If we go ahead and debate the Banking (Amendment) Act in this Bill, it will kill all the work that we have been doing in this House. We will not be able to debate it any further because it will have been passed as the Finance Bill."
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