28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. When the Committee looked at this matter, there was controversy around a candidate forming an expenditure committee. A number of people were going to determine how the candidate will spend their money. The experience of most Members is that our committees, and even committee Members, are not the most honest. Sometimes a committee can actually mess up a candidate thoroughly. It was felt that a candidate would be the one to comply with the provisions of this Act. Therefore, we removed the “campaign expenditure committees”. When we come to Clause 6, we will ...
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
or a candidate wishes to appoint an agent, then that is catered for in the authorized persons clause. Thank you, Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. We thank you for this opportunity.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
I beg to move:-
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 4 be amended in subclause (2) by inserting the words “obtain a warrant and”immediately after the words “reasonable time”.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
The amendment by the Committee is to the extent of requiring that before any search is done by the Commission, a search warrant is obtained from the High Court as is, indeed, required by the Constitution. The Commission had put in the Bill, in the earlier draft, that for purposes of investigations and compliance, the Commission be authorized at any reasonable time to enter into any premises and search them. However, the Committee, in supporting the amendment to obtain a warrant, feels strongly that the Commission will have to follow the Constitution; before searching any premises, a search The electronic ...
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
warrant must be obtained. So, the words “obtain a warrant” are included in Clause 4(2). That is the amendment by the Committee.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. We have seen the amendment proposed by hon. (Eng.) Gumbo. One of the things we regret a bit as a Committee is that we did not have those amendments in time. We spent a lot of time, as a Committee, going through this Bill. It became a bit difficult for us to accommodate them. That is really the position.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
However, looking at what the Member is proposing, first the deletion of the words “any person”, I do not think that I have a lot of difficulties with that.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think “any person” might remain but we will be asking for his indulgence because the Committee did not have enough time to interrogate some of the amendments that he has introduced today.
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