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    "id": 1373025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Procedural Motion. However, I want to point out one matter in Part IV, the one on the statutory instruments. It is important to note that the regulation-making authorities that make regulations pursuant to the Bills we pass in the House, within the statutory instruments and gazettement, may be imposing charges on the general population. I have noticed a tendency of the Executive to wait for just before the House goes on recess. That is when it publishes some of those punitive regulations. The danger that we would face if we were to go on a recess, for example, for two months, is that those impositions of levies or fees would proceed to have a force of law. The minute the gazettement takes place, the regulations become law. They have to wait for the Committee on Delegated Legislation of this House to be seized of that matter and deliberate it. In case the Committee decides that the levies are too punitive and have to be annulled, then they have to wait until the House sits and that is when they can present them. So, I feel that everything else makes a lot of sense. However, we have to be careful that we do not now allow the Executive to make laws and collect taxes or levies for two months, then the House makes a decision when already the horse has already bolted. I support but it is important to figure out how to handle that part on statutory instruments. Thank you."
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