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"content": "The memorandum accompanying this Act pursuant to memorandum Article 218(2) of the Constitution and the ceilings set out that not to bind memorandum shall not, in any way be construed to be binding on Parliament. Parliament in subsequent budgetary proceedings relating to the approval of budget estimates and the enactment of the annual Appropriation Bill under Article 224 of the Constitution or for a particular financial year. It is yesterday when we were discussing the Bill. When I sought the assistance of the legal officer about an amendment and actually tried to look at the memorandum, if you look at the memorandum, and it has already been said by an hon. Member, Treasury is trying to give an explanation as to why the county assembliesâ salaries should remain and by extension Parliament, as gazetted. I was thinking that if we allow this memorandum to go as it is, though I was advised that it is not part of the Act, we will be legalizing SRC and its gazettment which we have already tried to shoot down in this House. So, I was thinking that we just put a cushion and like hon. Mbadi has said, since it does not take anything, it is just a protective ring fencing so that in future we might not be affected or told to comply. Of course, the Leader of Majority Party has said that Article 218(2)--- In my thinking, I need to engage the services of a lawyer from my county to be advising me on these things. In my thought, an article in the Constitution is a requirement. Article 218 says that a Bill will have a memorandum. I was thinking that memorandum is part as indicated under Article 218(2). So, I beg to move that ----"
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