15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the Chair and the Leader of the Majority Party may have not been with us here. We are on 23(3), if I hear you properly. What they have spoken to is section 23(4). What both of them have spoken to is 23(4)? I know that we have been here for a long time.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is a good amendment. If you have been following the amendments we had in the infrastructure sector, we insisted this starting with when we were doing the Kenya Roads Bill. We looked at lots of institutions and boards. The Leader of the Majority Party is the one who thought that we should bring in the Master’s degree in the qualifications. Members said that it was a good thing but it was a very high qualification. We should think more of experience than the paper degree that a person comes with. This is in line with ...
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
This is a good amendment. I support it.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have a brief. I have gone through these pieces of legislation. This is one of the pieces of legislation that I heard Hon. Member for Suba North say that she would wish to drop. I have gone through them and they are good pieces of legislation.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
They align the terminology of legislation from “Minster” to “Cabinet Secretary”. Above all, Clause 59 is the best because it ingrains what we know as property rights that you have to deposit the piece of art or skill for which you want a patent or protection.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
I know the procedure requires that I have to rise all the time, but for brevity, I withdraw all the amendments that have to do with the Industrial Property Act.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I confirm that all those amendments proposed by the Member for Suba North are withdrawn. I see my learned friend, Hon. Murugara, is the only one, I am sure, who understands where we are now: The Industrial Property Act.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
They propose that designs must be deposited with the Registrar. I know the Leader of the Majority Party has problems when we mention learned friend. We will always learn and everybody is allowed to. His statement…
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
What he is saying is that the proposition in the Bill does not exist in the parent Act. So, he is proposing to delete the clause which is in the Bill because it has no relation or relevance to the Act. If you drop it, it means the Bill will still be the way it is. But, if he prosecutes it, then it will clean up what the Act is about. So he cannot just drop it to clean.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
I withdraw and apologise.
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