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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to also support. The Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill provides rules for the making and revocation of statutory instruments that are made directly or indirectly under any Act of Parliament or other written legislation. The Bill simply provides how to align regulations. Regulations guide any cost to citizens or any other institution. Therefore, you have to have regulations for guidance. Just the other day, the President assented to the Affordable Housing Bill. We need regulations not only to guide the process on how those houses are built, but also to ensure quality and fair ownership. Without regulations, it will be very difficult. The other thing is that the Bill helps in terms of content. When passing an Act, you have to always ask yourself how to ensure the Act does the things that you need it to do. The regulations come in to implement the Act. Clause 4 of the Bill seeks to amend Section 14 of the Act to provide that, where the Committee recommends an exemption of any statutory instruments for scrutiny, then the exemption may only be done subject to the approval by the House. This is where most of the time we have had challenges as Parliament. There is an Act that is explicit and explains everything that needs to be done, but then any parastatal or institution makes its own decisions. That is what happened in the last regime. That is why many regulations came back to this House to be quashed. When we quashed the ones for tea, we did not remember that we took the industry back to the old regulations. As we pass this Bill, I hope that we are going back to look at each and every regulation. We need to guide each sector to have clear regulations according to their needs. If there are regulations that have been drafted by any institution and have not been passed by this House, they need to be brought before the Committee so that they can be looked into properly. We need to pass them in the House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is also important for us to look at the regulations that our ministries are using. Kenyans do not really understand those statutory instruments. They need to know that whenever an Act of Parliament is passed, there are regulations that guide it. Those regulations provide the explanation. For instance, as Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), how well do you understand the laws? I beg to support."
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