The Senate secretariat will not be allowed to right any content material, even punctuation marks, in payments, Senator Jinggoy Estrada stated.
The lawmaker made the comment after Senate Secretary Renato Bantug Jr. disclosed that the double provisions on the prescription interval within the Maharlika Investment Fund Bill was fastened by merging them.
The Senate model of the invoice, which was ultimately adopted by the House of Representatives, included two sections on the prescriptive interval.
The draft invoice handed on the Senate flooring gives a 10-year prescriptive interval for crimes punishable underneath the measure, whereas one other part in the identical invoice gives for a 20-year prescriptive interval.
“If you call me as a veteran senator, what I understand sa tagal ko dito you cannot alter not even a period, not even a comma, ‘yan ang aking pagkakaintindi,” Estrada, a former Senate President Pro Tempore, stated on the Kapihan sa Senado.
Asked if the Senate secretariat might repair it, the lawmaker responded: “Hindi pwede.”
“Parang di yata tama ‘yon,” the senator stated on the merging of the 2 sections on prescriptive interval.
Last week, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri signed the MIF invoice regardless of the flagged errors within the measure.
Asked how the Senate addressed the double provisions on the prescriptive interval within the MIF invoice, Zubiri stated: “I believe the corrections were thoroughly discussed by the majority bloc in our Viber group, including the correction sent by Senator Mark Villar.”
But Estrada stated he was by no means consulted on the matter.
He stated he was a part of the Viber group that Zubiri had talked about however he was not capable of learn the dialogue on addressing the double provisions within the MIF invoice.
Asked if the invoice must be referred again to the Senate plenary, Estrada stated it’s Zubiri who ought to reply that.
After the invoice was signed by Zubiri, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III stated that there was “high chance” that the MIF invoice could be declared unconstitutional. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
