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    "id": 1268264,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand guided on that matter. We now have a comprehensive legislation that will handle matters of property rates in this country. As I was saying earlier, we have had haphazard property rate legislation in this country. Each county government has been enacting its own legislation, but we are now going to have a uniform legislation that will provide uniformity on matters pertaining to property rates. I, therefore, fully endorse this legislation, particularly the uniformity aspect. We have to clearly revisit some pieces legislation because we devolved law making to the county governments where disaster management is a devolved function under the Fourth Schedule, meaning that we have 48 different pieces of legislation on disaster management in this country. Land is also a devolved function, but we have also allowed the county governments to legislate on property rating. Therefore, we have 48 different pieces of legislation on property rating. So, what happens? When there is conflict in a court of law in respect of the Rating Act of County X, it becomes difficult for the court to make a determination. As I said earlier, there is a very clear provision under Clause 72, which states that “county legislation shall be in compliance with this Act” meaning that if a certain county passes a legislation on rating and there is a dispute in the application of the provisions of the law in that county, then we will have checks and balances through the National Rating Act."
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