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    "id": 1424227,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1424227/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to make my contribution to this Bill. I support the amendment. I say so because I come from the Committee on Delegated Legislation of the Senate, and in fact, I have the responsibility thereof being the Vice-Chairperson. This amendment is a reminder of the regulations making agencies. These include Cabinet Secretaries, corporations such as the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK), and all other regulators who are playing in the space of Government. It is a reminder to them that the law-making process does not belong to the Executive or the authorities that have been set up by law. The law-making process, legislation, and powers belong to the Senate and the National Assembly. When we donate the powers to them for them to make regulations, it is so that they can make those laws that we have made here, the mother laws, effective. This instrument was necessitated by the fact that some of these regulation making agencies would finish with regulations and then forget even to publish to the people. As the Mover has said, sometimes those regulations have lapsed, but they would continue to apply them, and then the Senate or National Assembly gets to know that a regulation, which is not there, is being applied. We have had a very funny situation because this Statutory Instruments Act says that after 10 years, all those regulations must lapse and must go back for re-enactment. Every regulations making agency must come before the Delegated Legislation committees of the National Assembly and the Senate, so that they can justify why they need an extension of those regulations that have expired. However, the regulations making agencies have become a law unto themselves. They forget that we just donated these powers to them. The power to make law is with the National Assembly and the Senate of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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