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    "id": 971827,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971827/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "(b) in sub-section (4) by deleting the words “and the Division of Revenue Act” appearing in paragraph (a). This is just a correction. When we amended the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act last year, we intended to provide for a smooth flow of the Finance Bill in this House from the introduction to the passage. The amendment that we made last time to the PFM Act was that the Finance Bill must be submitted by 30th April and passed by 30th June each year. There was a drafting error which was not rectified at the time of the passing of that Bill. The error indicated that the President must assent to the Finance Bill by June 30th. The intention was that it should be presented for assent by that day. That is an error in conformity with Article 115 of the Constitution. For every Bill that we pass, the President has 14 days either to assent or to return it using his veto power. When we said that it should be assented to by 30th June, the Legal Directorate felt that, that bit was an error. The amendment in (b) was to align it by deleting the words “and the Division of Revenue Act” appearing in paragraph (a). This amendment is just to clean up the process of introducing the Finance Bill in the National Assembly so that we do not curtail its passage and, if possible, if there will be a disagreement between the two Houses on the Division of Revenue Bill. The drafters of the Constitution have separated those two processes. My proposed amendment in paragraph (b) is simply an insertion of the words “and the Division of Revenue Act” in the same section. The text was left out in the earlier amendment. This was what we did in the PFM Act just to make sure that the Finance Bill is introduced on 30th April, the House has until 30th June and then the President has 14 days. I was correcting those errors."
}