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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also stand to support this Bill. Let me reiterate what I said. This is an extremely important Bill. We had to move it ahead today, so that it is discussed this morning because we want it to be fast tracked it in the afternoon. It will be in the Committee of the whole House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you can see the little time people have had to look at it. I said this and I will repeat it again that, if we continue with this kind of speed, the populace will lose faith in the House. That is a dangerous thing. Having said that, this Bill traces back the history of regulations to long time ago, when ministers were given authority to publish regulations and that was it. They then went into effect. Therefore, many regulations were made, with neither the people nor the House being aware of. Thus, giving them the power to make regulations that were part of law which our Constitution has abolished. It is important that we do that. It, therefore, calls that, if a cabinet secretary or whoever publishes the regulations fails to submit it within seven days, it will not work. It becomes a nullity. That is something that I will support so that just publishing it is not enough. It must come to Parliament. It also provides that when there is a feeling that some regulation should be exempted from the normal scrutiny, that should only be done by the House. I commend the Committee for realising that when you add the ‘they are exempting’, it means they are exempting themselves. Therefore, the House must take over and see why exemption is taking place. Once there has been an annulment of a regulation, people should know. The requirement that it must be in the parliamentary website and then be published by the cabinet secretary, that is at it should be. Hon. Temporary Speaker, maybe, you were not here in the morning. My argument was that Hon. Murugara was not quite keen on the main reason why we probably hurried clause 7 that is dealing with automatic revocation, so that there are a number of regulations that are nullified as they have not been reviewed. Therefore, they are automatically revoked. This one limit that that revocation should not be automatic and that it should be looked into. It is a reasonable thing to do. As I conclude and support, we must always give time for Members to understand Bills, participate and make amendments. Even if I wanted to make amendments, our Standing Orders prevents me from making amendments between now and 2.30 p.m. when it comes to the House. We should respect our own Standing Orders and not create situations which makes them inoperable. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. 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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