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    "id": 1337738,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1337738/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": "My understanding of how things work is that the Constitution is interpreted through the law and the law is interpreted and implemented through regulations. Whenever we are making any law, we refer to the extent to which regulations should be interpreted so that they can effectively implement a particular law or elaborate it for users. When this House is omitted in terms of looking at the regulations it gives us problems. This is a serious omission that we need to see how we can flag it out. I would like the Committee on Delegated Legislation to think about it. We should be co-opting the technical committee members when they are discussing regulations of a certain sector. We should have regulations looked at by a technical committee to ensure they have effectively captured every detail of a specific legislation, so that we do not have loopholes in the resultant law. Therefore, we need to have that loophole sealed. Another issue is that when we come up with regulations, their level of comprehensiveness is doubtful. We do not have sufficient capture of what is supposed to be done because of avoiding to follow the actual route. Sometimes that may lead us to doing the wrong things. I understand that some regulations have been in force for three years, specifying wrong things and misleading Kenyans and making them not to achieve their objectives. So, it is important for this House to debate the Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill so that the correct thing is done to ensure that the correct version of a regulation is the one in force and, therefore, the correct law is being interpreted. Therefore, the Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill is key and I support it."
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