8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: The Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on its consideration of a Petition on payment of terminal dues to former employees of Pan Paper Company Limited, by Hon. Patrick Wangamati, MP. I want to tell the House that after considering the Petition, the Committee has decided that Pan Paper and the Ministry should have an authenticated list of the former employees. We urge the Ministry of Finance and the National Treasury to make funds available, so that these employees ...
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8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I agree with both the Mover and the Leader of the Majority Party that this is a very important Bill. I also want to agree with the Chair of the Committee that the Members who want to debate this Bill would like to get an informed decision. I hope that when they get views from the KRA, the National Treasury and others, this will enrich the debate in this House. You have heard the two previous speakers saying that it is an important Bill, but it is also important for us to discuss from a point ...
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I apologise. We were in the Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting and that is why I am late. On that note, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House, today, Tuesday, 7th February 2017: The Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on its consideration of the Petition on implementation of the 2009 Akiwumi Tribunal Report on minimum living pension for former Members of Parliament who served between 1984 and 2002, by Hon. (Eng.) Nicholas Gumbo. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I would like to differ with the Leader of the Majority Party. If one wants to apply for the job of PS, one should be versed with the requirements of the job because it is not a small job. One should not just have general knowledge. There is no provision in the Bill requiring one to have been a civil servant. The Bill only says that one needs to have thorough knowledge because a PS is not a junior official in the Ministry. If you want to apply for a job, why should you ...
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
I am sorry, Departmental Committee Chair; I assumed that since you are seated next to the Member for Nyandarua – who is a Member of your Committee – you had consulted before she spoke. I took it that the Committee had spoken. Let us now go to the amendment to Sub clause (3). We will start with Hon. Duale’s amendment and then proceed to Hon. Kamama’s.
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 4 of the Bill be amended— (a) in the proposed section 24B— (i) in subsection (1), by— The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
(a) deleting the words “on conviction to a fine” in the proposed paragraphs (a) and (b) and substituting therefor the words “to a monetary penalty”; (b) deleting the words “on conviction to an additional fine” in the proposed paragraph (c) and substituting therefor the words “to an additional monetary penalty”;
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
(ii) in subsection (2), by— (a) deleting the word “fine” appearing immediately after the words “before imposing a” and substituting therefor the words “monetary penalty”; (b) deleting the words “seven days” and replacing therefor with the words “fourteen days”; (c) deleting the word “fines” appearing immediately after the word “prescribed” and substituting therefor the words “monetary penalty”;
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
(iii) in subsection (3), by— (a) deleting the word “fine” appearing immediately before the words “is prescribed under” and substituting therefor the words “monetary penalty”; (b) deleting the word “fine” appearing immediately after the expression “section, such” and substituting therefor the word “penalty”; (c) deleting the word “ten” in paragraph (b); (d) deleting the word “fine” appearing in paragraph (c) and substituting therefor the words “monetary penalty”; (iv)by deleting subsection (4) and substituting therefor the following new subsection (4)— “(4) A monetary penalty imposed on a person under this section shall be a debt due to the Centre and shall, ...
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7 Feb 2017 in National Assembly:
any director, principal, officer, agent or employee of the reporting institution”; (vi) inserting the following new subsection immediately after the renumbered subsection (1)— “(2) Before taking administrative action imposed against any person or reporting institution under this section, the Centre shall give the person or reporting institution a written notice of not less than fourteen days requiring the person or institution to show cause as to why the prescribed administrative action should not be taken”. This amendment actually originated from the Financial Reporting Centre (FRC). It is an introduction of monetary penalties instead of fines. When you do this, you ...
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