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    "content": "The Commission shall ensure that all documents, materials, publications, reports and recommendations arising from the delimitation process are maintained in a form that is accessible and usable by members of the public. Mr. Chairman, Sir, essentially, it means that the Fifth Schedule be deleted and substituted with the following new Schedule. This schedule was as a result of the matrix produced by the Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs as a result of the agreement by the stakeholders. I could not agree more with that characterization. This matter was debated very seriously. It has to deal with the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission Report. It is important that I give a bit of background starting with Clause 27 of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. It states as follows:- “The Boundaries Commission established under the former Constitution shall continue to function as constituted under the Constitution and in terms of Section 41B and 41C but- (a) it shall not determine the boundaries of counties established under this Constitution; (b) it shall determine the boundaries of constituencies and wards using the criteria mentioned in this Constitution; (c) members of the Commission shall be subject to Chapter Seven of this Constitution. (3) The requirement in Article 89(2) that a review of constituency and ward boundaries shall be completed at least twelve months before a general election does not apply to the review of boundaries preceding the first elections under this Constitution. (4) The Boundaries Commission shall ensure that the first review of constituencies undertaken in terms of this Constitution shall not result in the loss of a constituency exiting on the effective date.” Mr. Chairman, Sir, the important thing is that the first review has been undertaken, but as we did amend earlier, it has major issues arising and matters that have not been concluded. That is why we carried an amendment to say that the first review means the review conducted by the former boundaries commission taking into account any outstanding work of that commission and issues arising from that review. As a result of that, we, in the Committee, through this Fifth Schedule, which really was handled by the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, and which was debated by this House in a Kamukunji and finally adopted by this House in a motion, intended to effect the conclusion of that work."
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