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    "id": 1046924,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "have the first-instance court as the final court, except for a presidential election. Therefore, the Bill contemplates the possibility of an appeal to the Court of Appeal. The Bill proposes that, for purposes of a referendum case, the Court of Appeal be the final court without the option of going to the Supreme Court, for a number of reasons which we will explain. Any appeal from the High Court is to be filed within seven days and to be determined within 21 days. That is the contemplation in terms of the discussions we had with the CIOC in Mombasa. The Bill also contemplates other administrative processes within the Judiciary. Hon. Speaker, although I had 45 minutes, I have used only 15 minutes and I am about to wind up in two minutes. Clauses 33 and 34 make general provisions. These are the usual provisions, including offences, penalties, application of election offences, prosecutions, arrests and the power to make regulations. The power to make regulations is important because we recognise that you cannot include everything under the sun within an Act. Some can be included in regulations. The last part is a long series of clauses from Clause 41 to 71. Those are consequential amendments to the Elections Act and the County Governments Act. Because some of the provisions in this Bill are already in the Elections Act, the consequence of adopting them is that the Elections Act must stand amended. The Clerk Assistants and Legal Counsel have to painstakingly go through the Elections Act and identify what will be consequentially amended. Hon. Speaker, having spent a whole 16 and a half minutes, I beg to move and request Hon. George Gitonga Murugara, advocate and member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, to second. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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