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    "id": 1052441,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Munene Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "John Munene Wambugu",
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    "content": "because they deal with Acts or Bills concerning devolved functions. This proposed County Statutory Instruments Bill is timely because now they will have their own Act on which their committees on delegated legislation and in essence the whole of the county assembly can interrogate most of the legislations, rules or regulations emanating from county executive committees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am a member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Quite a number of regulations which come to us go contrary to the parent Act or even the Constitution. We have been able to arrest them by annulling those regulations. This has been because, at least, there is this enabling Act which we normally use - the Statutory Instruments Act. I believe that since the functions of the county assemblies are similar to the functions of the National Assembly, at the national level, which is oversight, legislation and representation, it is important for them to be looking into what is being passed or proposed by the county executive committees. The only big departure is an improvement to this proposed Bill, Section 10 (4) of the proposed Bill. Unlike the National Assembly where once a regulation has been published, it continues to have the force of law unless annulled, this Bill proposes that once the regulation is published, if within seven days it is not tabled in the county assembly, it will cease to have the force of law. This is something that we should borrow for the National Assembly going forward, because we have seen a lot of mischief where regulation-making bodies publish, engage in some monkey business and those issues are never tabled. Sometimes, they do not know what is being implemented and yet, it has not been tabled in the National Assembly. With the proposed County Statutory Instruments Bill, that mischief has been cured. Without belabouring the point, I support and urge all Members to support this Bill. It is timely, especially now, when we are geared towards changing the Constitution and devolving resources further to a minimum of 35 per cent. Further devolution of resources means that there will be more legislation emanating from county assemblies, which will give more power to the counties. This means that the powers of the members of the county executive committees will need to be checked through the committees on delegated legislation of the county assemblies. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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