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    "id": 695463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, this was a statement. Hon. Lessonet brought out a salient point with regard to Article 116 of the Constitution. Once the President assents to a Bill, the Attorney-General is required to publish that Bill within seven days. The Bill becomes an Act of Parliament and takes effect 14 days after the date of publication, unless the Act stipulates otherwise. It is important. I indicated a month ago that the power of Members to amend any proposed legislation can never be taken away by whatever arrangement. It is within your powers to even indicate the date you want a particular law to take effect. If you choose to allow that power to be exercised by others outside here, we will go by Article 116(2). There will be an assent date, seven days after that the Bill will be published and 14 days from the date of publication, it will take effect. I say this for the benefit of Members of some Committee, including Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud, so that you feel comfortable that once 14 days after publication are over, those other laws can take effect. Any other stories being bandied in FM stations and other avenues of communication are just expressions of desires by uninformed citizenry. Those are the processes. Anybody else making other statements is just doing so per incuriam, which means in ignorance of the law. Are there any comments on the statement by Hon. Lessonet?"
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