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    "id": 485251,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 95,
        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "This is to bring the commencement date after publication of this Bill. This Bill does not have a commencement date. As the hon. Members will know, Article 116(1) of the Constitution says and I will quote:- “A Bill passed by Parliament and assented to by the President shall be published in the Gazette as an Act of Parliament within seven days after assent.” Clause 116(2) states and I quote:- “Subject to Clause (3), an Act of Parliament comes into force on the fourteenth day after its publication in the Gazette, unless the Act stipulates a different date or time at which it will come into force.” Hon. Chairlady, if we do not put in a commencement date, I want to tell the hon. Members that this Act will not come into operation once assented to for another two weeks at the very least from the day of assenting. This will mean that the county governments---"
}