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    "id": 125961,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. A. Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the joint sittings of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Committee on Delegated Legislation on the appointment of the Director and two Assistant Directors of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 8th September 2009. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs derives its mandate from Standing Order No.198 with the Second Schedule mandating the Committee to consider the subjects listed in my Report which include; Constitutional affairs, administration of law and justice; judiciary, police and prisons departments, public prosecutions, elections, ethics integrity and anti-corruption and human rights. The Committee oversees the following Ministries; the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, the State Law Office, the Judiciary, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), the Interim Independent Electoral Commission, and the Interim Boundaries Commission. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Delegated Legislation, which I have the privilege of chairing is established under Standing Order No.197 to among other functions, ensure that statutory instruments are laid before the House as may be provided by any written law and scrutinize, such that these instruments are consistent with the parent Statute. The Committee is also mandated to ensure that the statutory instruments are Tabled before the House after publication in the Kenya Gazette and the Committee has the right to recommend that the House resolves any particular legislation be annulled. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No.185, the Committee on Delegated Legislation---"
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