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    "id": 1337712,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to give my voice to this intended amendment on Statutory Instruments Act. At the outset, I want to state that delegated simply means that you are ceding part of your power to a third party. When you delegate, it is expected of you to supervise and give an okay to whatever it is you delegated to the other party. It is of interest that when Parliament delegates, we do not get an opportunity to look back and see what it is that we asked the other party to do and especially now on this matter where we allow the Executive to legislate to the extent that they publish before the same is brought to the House for ratification. As all speakers have stated, it cannot be law until it is brought to this House because it is only this House that is mandated by the Constitution to make laws. It has given me a lot of trouble to imagine that we have purported laws that are being implemented and cited in courts of law that never saw the light of this House. Anyway, they became law because they were published. This amendment would not have come at a better time. I would wish that the Committee on Delegated Legislation looks deeper on further amendments, especially the issue where the Executive legislates. The same regulations are supposed to be brought to this Committee for consideration. After the Committee on Delegated Legislation okays these regulations, they are published without getting to the Floor of the House. It is my considered opinion that even if regulations are passed by the Committee on Delegated Legislation, they be brought to this House for ratification just like we do with treaties and conventions so that they have the force of the National Assembly and Parliament as it is envisaged in the Constitution. You realise that the only time that regulations are brought to this House is when the Committee on Delegated Legislation feels they should be done away with. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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