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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. It is timely and long overdue. As a former Member and Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, I speak with the benefit of hindsight. When I was a member of that Committee and a Chairperson, we almost became the Committee of annulments. We were almost being referred to as the Committee on annulments. At every time statutory instruments were referred to the Committee, the membership in their wisdom found out that most of the issues in the regulations were either against the Constitution, ultra vires or outrightly illegal. We, therefore, had no choice but to annul those regulations. As earlier spoken by a Member, we had to do that when Kenyans had already suffered a lot of damages. It is long overdue that this House takes charge of its constitutional duty by supervising the delegation of law-making authority to those entities to ensure that every statutory instrument, in whatever form they come, has the full force of law and has undergone thorough public participation. In any case, that is the main reason for annulling most of the regulations. Most of those statutory-making bodies, because they knew what they were doing, always ensured that they never undertook public participation. By introducing this Bill, Parliament shall regain its full authority as the only body recognised by the Constitution that has the authority to make law. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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