20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
What we are trying to introduce in sub-clause 2 is purely to state the status and rank for purposes of pecking order in the county government. The county attorney will not sit in the County Executive Committee (CEC) as a Member. It is purely to introduce the fact that he will rank amongst the Members of the CECs. That is the justification.
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 20 of the Bill be amended by deleting sub-clause (2) and substituting therefor the following new sub-clause-
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
(2) The Attorney-General may, from time to time by notice in the Gazette, amend the Second Schedule.
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
The justification is that this amendment proposes to give further effect to the amendment to Clause 2 of the Bill which we will deal with. The Attorney-General replaces the respective CS as the implementing agency of the Act. The Bill from the Senate states the CS as the implementing agency. Unfortunately, we do not have any CS who is in charge of legal matters today. We have the Attorney-General. This is why we have made a proposal to replace the CS with the Attorney-General. We will also amend the next clause plus the definition of who should be in charge. ...
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 29 of the Bill be amended by deleting the expression “Cabinet Secretary” and substituting therefor the expression “Attorney-General” 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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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
The justification is that, again, we are removing the term “Cabinet Secretary” and we are replacing it with the Attorney-General. This is purely to bring order into the Bill. Where the CS is supposed to make regulations, that duty will be done by the Attorney-General.
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:
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20 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended by deleting the definition of the term “Cabinet Secretary” and substituting therefor the following new definition- “Attorney-General” means the Attorney-General appointed under Article 156 of the Constitution;”
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