15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I hope you will not be tired with me because I have been here two days just to prosecute these issues. This is the subline of everything we have said since morning. Hon. Members, look at your Order Paper and look at the Bill. We have said it a lot. We cannot force people to take advice but the truth is there. The amendment by the Member for Homa Bay says this: “Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Child Welfare Society of Kenya established under Legal Notice No. 58 of 2014 shall be the ...
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the Member for Suba North intends to propose deletions to Sections 29, 32 and 36 of the Bill.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
What it has meant is this: that if you come to the parent Act in Section 177(1) it says that nobody in Kenya can make any arrangement for adoption unless that body is registered as an adoption society.”
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Therefore, the Act itself as it were gave a provision by which Government is a regulator and if you then register – and the way to register is even under that Act, you must apply to the director and so on – you then can become an adoption society. However, this amendment overrides the Act itself and says notwithstanding what the Act has said; it is this Child Welfare Society which will be the only adoption society. That is the interpretation that is here. This is the monopoly that we have been talking about since morning. Therefore, this society, which ...
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
I think I need to drop this because as I see, the deletion proposed in the Bill is to correct the numbering. There is a resultant renumbering which has ensued after there is a reorganisation in that clause. So, I go on record as dropping that amendment to Section 29(4).
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Sure. I also intend to drop this. I can see that the Bill is trying to realign the terminology of the council to the Cabinet Secretary. So, just to save time, I will drop the amendments on Sections 32 and 36(1).
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I propose to drop that amendment on Section 36(1).
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I confirm that on behalf of the Member for Suba North, we withdraw the amendments to provisions of the copyright law.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Let us help each other for purposes of good legislation. Although it is not on your notes, it is very clear here that if you do not provide the transition, you will end up throwing those boards away.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
The Member is asleep.
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