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    "id": 773696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Indeed, it was in the wisdom of this House, in the 10th Parliament, that the Statutory Instruments Act was debated and passed by that House as then comprised, and some Members are still in this House. You can check between Sections 8 to 15 of that Act which provide that any regulation-making body or authority is only required, after publishing and gazetting within seven days, to table those regulations or whatever form of subsidiary legislation or statutory instrument it may bring before the House. The House is then required to consider them within the timeframes which are provided for there. But, of course, should the House not be sitting, that same law provides that the body that proposes to make those regulations is still at liberty to implement them and, indeed, specifically says that nothing done on those statutory instruments is illegal or unlawful until such a time as the House would have annulled them. So, it is too bad that the law has exempted them. The reason is that the House, at times, may not be sitting or the Committee itself may be having too much work at hand and may not have pronounced itself on those regulations or instruments. So, it is within the law. I have not heard anybody challenge those particular provisions of the Act. So, it is unfortunate if anybody suffers before the House has expressed itself in one way or another in any of the proposed statutory instruments. There is that exception provided for in the Act. If you read it you will realize that it has those clauses. The House is within its rights to resolve to extend the period within which the Committee is to consider them. As you can see, these regulations are quite many and it means that the Committee will be interacting with the many stakeholders some of them being the ones proposing the regulations and others being the general public. There is a lot that needs to be done by the Committee."
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