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    "id": 1337708,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1337708/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Keiyo South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Kimaiyo",
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    "content": "fees, letters patent, commission, warrant, proclamation, by-law, resolution, guideline, or other statutory instrument issued, made or established in the execution of a power conferred by or under an Act of Parliament under which that statutory instrument or subsidiary legislation is expressly authorised to be issued. We have the Constitution of Kenya and Acts of Parliament. However, Acts of Parliament do not cover everything. The law allows the Executive, through Cabinet Secretaries, to come up with regulations to cover the remainder. There is a laid-down procedure in the Statutory Instruments Act of 2013. You must engage in public participation and establish an impact assessment on the same. We are currently witnessing an abuse of that procedure. People come up with regulations, which they do not bring to Parliament, and make them laws. To check on that abuse, I support the amendment Bill so that a Cabinet Secretary or any regulation- making body that comes up with regulations brings them to the House within seven days because Parliament is the only body allowed to make laws. If regulations are not referred to the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation and then brought to this House, they are deemed to be null and void. It is upon regulation-making bodies to ensure that within seven days after they publish regulations in the Kenya Gazette, they bring them to this House. If they do not do so, the regulations are annulled by the House through the Kenya Gazette ."
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