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    "id": 266920,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "The IEBC Act 2011 limits the Commission to resolve issues arising from the first review and to use IIBRC Report as primary reference level, and Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs report as its secondary reference material. The Constitution further provides that the delimitation of boundaries be done at the intervals of not less than eight and not more than 12 years. However, paragraph 27 of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution provides as follows: That the Boundaries Commission established under the former Constitution shall continue to function as constituted under that Constitution, and in terms of Section 41(c) and 41(c) but:- (a) It shall not determine the boundaries of the county established under this Constitution. (b) It shall determine the boundaries of constituencies and wards using the criteria mentioned in this Constitution, and, (c) The members of the Commission shall be subject to Chapter 7 of this Constitution. The requirements in Article 89(2) that a review of constituency and wards boundaries shall be completed, at least, 12 months before a general election, does not apply to the review of boundaries preceding the first election under this Constitution; that the boundaries Commission shall ensure that the first review of constituencies undertaken in terms of this Constitution shall not resort in the loss of a constituency existing on the effective date. Article 82 of the Constitution 2010 allows Parliament to enact legislation, to allow the delimitation by the IEBC as follows:-"
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