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    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": " I am getting everything wrong today. I think I was given the wrong notes, but I have the Bill. Hon. Speaker, this Bill seeks to amend Section 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act of 2013 by introducing a new amendment under sub-clause 5 that requires all statutory or regulation-making bodies to submit to this House, within seven days, every regulation that they make that is not brought to this House. The Committee noted that there are too many regulations that are made by those bodies which are not brought here within seven days, as required by Section 11. I have received some of them but, unfortunately, we do not have the powers to do anything to them. This amendment seeks to give power to the Committee to ask the regulation-making authorities to bring those regulations that are a nullity to the House so that we nullify them. We also require that the Clerk publishes the nullification in, at least, two national newspapers. These are two short amendments which seek to give teeth to the Committee to ensure that the regulation-making bodies bring regulations to the House as required by Section 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act. The public needs to be notified whenever we annul any regulations. We have annulled many regulations, but some of the regulation-making authorities do not notify the public of their nullification. We want those bodies to publish the nullification in two national newspapers. If they do not do so, then the Clerk of the National Assembly is required by the law to publish the annulment. We have also noted that the Deputy Speaker is also seeking to amend the Statutory Instruments Act. We will move her two amendments in the Committee of the whole House. With those few remarks, I request the Vice-Chairperson of the Delegated Legislation Committee, Hon. Gichimu, to second."
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