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Jump to full article: The Namibian (na), 2009-10-12
Author: BRIGITTE WEIDLICH
Intro: THE National Assembly adopted the Tobacco Products Control Bill with one amendment on Thursday, the last sitting day of the year.
The Bill will now go to the National Council, the House of Review. In a moment of rare agreement between the opposition and the benches of the ruling Swapo Party, Members agreed to a small, but important change of words in Clause 3, which originally stipulated that a member of the umbrella labour movement NUNW, should sit on one of the supervisory boards to be created once the bill is promulgated.
Tsudao Gurirab of the official opposition party CoD proposed that the words should be changed to “a member of organised labour” and thus would avoid the name of a specific labour union.
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