NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF ZAMBIA

FIRST SESSION OF THE TWELFTH ASSEMBLY

ORDER PAPER - FRIDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 2016

AT 0900 HOURS

HER HONOUR THE VICE PRESIDENT’S QUESTION TIME (30 MINUTES)

PRESENTATION OF GOVERNMENT BILL

The Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry

The Patents - Bill to provide for the protection and administration of patents; to provide for the patentability of inventions; to provide for the process for obtaining letters patent for an invention; to provide for the restriction, publication and communication of patents; promote the use of patented information and technological knowledge; to provide for contractual and compulsory licences; to provide for the use and acquisition of inventions by the Government; to promote and encourage innovative and inventive activities and local generation of technologies; to provide for the protection of utility models and the grant of a utility model certificate; to give effect to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883, the Patent Cooperation Treaty 1970, the Harare Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs adopted on December 10, 1982, and the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 1994, and any other relevant international treaty or convention to which Zambia is a State Party; to repeal and replace the Patents Act, 1958; and to provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.                                                                                  (N.A.B. 25/2016)

NOTICE OF MOTION AND ORDER OF THE DAY

Mr Ngulube

Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee:  That this House do adopt the Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to scrutinise the Presidential appointment of Mrs Fulata Lillian Shawa-Siyunyi to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions, for the First Session of the Twelfth National Assembly, laid on the Table of the House on 13th October, 2016.

1    Thanks - His Excellency the President’s Address - Motion (4th October)   -    Resumption of Debate.