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    "id": 1337693,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1337693/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "This is an area that we have grappled with for many years during the 12th Parliament - how to enforce or entrench the role of Parliament in statutory instruments. There had been this feeling all over that delegated legislation or statutory instruments are not necessarily law as is envisaged in the Constitution. With the passing of this Act in the 11th Parliament and this amendment we are seeking to make, a very clear signal is being sent to Government Ministries and constitutional bodies that subsidiary legislation is as good as the law. The amendments, even though well intentioned - and I hope the Chairman is listening - may not be strong or direct enough to cure the problem that we have grappled with. Even the parent Act is expressly clear on the statutory instrument that is required to be laid before Parliament. If not laid before Parliament, it has no legal effect. I want to refer them to Section 11(4) that clearly says: “The statutory instrument shall cease to have effect immediately after the last day for it to be so laid but without prejudice to any act done under the statutory instrument before it became void.”"
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