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    "content": "Hon. Members, having found that it is open to any committee to commence an inquiry into a matter if in its interpretation of its mandate it comes to the conclusion that the matter properly falls within that mandate, and having further found that the mandates of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Committee on Delegated Legislation touch on the matters in issue, it does not appear to the Chair that a pronouncement from the Chair on the question of whether the re-appointment of the Director of the KACC constitutes subsidiary legislation within the meaning of the Standing Orders, would be the most appropriate or efficient way for this House to proceed. It is not the intention of the Speaker to pre-empt the findings of Committees of the House or to take over their mandate. Indeed, it is arguable that it is these very questions that these committees, with the assistance of the expertise at their disposal, will be considering and advising this House upon. In taking this position I am guided by precedents from other jurisdictions, including the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the Indian Lok Sabha. Although I have previously ruled that committees do not require the direction of the Chair or the House to proceed with their mandate, this is not to say that the Chair or the House, for that matter, is prevented, in appropriate circumstances, from directing that any committee undertakes any particular task falling within its mandate. In light of this, and considering the immense public interest generated by this matter, and the important constitutional questions in issue, I direct that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Committee on Delegated Legislation proceed, with dispatch, to consider the matter of the re-appointment of the Director of the KACC and to report to this House within two weeks of the date hereof."
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