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    "id": 1337741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. That is my claim to fame. That, I taught some clever people, including yourself. You were a good student. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to lend my voice to this very important Bill - the Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.2 of 2023). As it was earlier said by Hon. Chepkonga, the Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, I had a similar Bill, but we merged our Bills so that we can prosecute one Bill. I am speaking not only as someone who was the Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation in the 12th Parliament, but also as a total public servant having served in all the three arms of Government. My experience is that there have been many challenges relating to the Statutory Instruments Act. It has had many loopholes that lend itself to abuse by various members of the Executive. They passed legislation through the back door. Previously, the law allowed a cabinet secretary or a statutory institution to publish regulations in the Kenya Gazette and submit them to the Clerk of the National Assembly within seven days. When the regulations pended in the Committee on Delegated Legislation for 28 days, the regulation would take effect and Kenyans would be expected to start abiding by them. If they were to pay any penalties, they would start to pay them. In the meantime, the committee would be considering that regulation. Usually, by the time that regulation would be annulled in the Committee and by the House, it would have already caused irreparable harm and damage to Kenyans. At that time, the mischief of institutions and ministries was to bring regulations at a time when we are about to go for recess. We were counting 28 calendar days then. We amended the Statutory Instruments Act to read that it will be 28 sitting days. This was to protect us from this mischief when we are on recess. We found out that ministries published regulations while we were on recess. By the time we came back, we had only three days left and the law at that time permitted that the regulations 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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