Committee to re-submit Penal Code in March
30 Dec 2013, 6:46 PM
Mariyath Mohamed
Parliament’s Special Committee for Penal Code Review has stated that the committee will complete work on revising the bill by early March.
The final draft of the penal code – which had taken seven years in the committee stage – was rejected in yesterday’s parliamentary sitting with 36 votes. MPs then voted to send the bill back to the drafting committee
Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP and chair of the committee Ahmed Hamza told Minivan News today that the committee will send letters today to every individual member of parliament, asking them to submit any desired amendments to the bill by January 20.
On receiving the amendments, the committee will review them and decide on those to be accepted by January 30, after which the revised bill will be sent to the parliament floor for voting on February 5.
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