Bill on Quarantine Order for Second Reading at Senate on Tuesday
The Protection Against Infectious Diseases Bill which passed through first reading at the Senate last Tuesday and seeks to empower the National Assembly with the right to annul the President’s Quarantine Order will go for second reading next Tuesday.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment had said: “Recall that we have a controversial bill in the House on quarantine act amendment. So I want to be sure that we don’t go the same route.” Highlights of the bill include a clause which empowers the National Assembly to annul a quarantine order made by a sitting President. Clause 3 provides that “if a resolution is passed by both Houses of the National Assembly annulling the order or declaration, it shall cease to have effect, notwithstanding subsection or , but without prejudice to anything previously done by virtue thereof.”
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