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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Boss Shollei",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Jepkosgei-boss Shollei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is the basis upon which we are annulling these regulations. The law does not allow the CS to pick and choose. If he has to vary the excise duty on the goods, he must do it for both schedules; not just one. He was completely in contravention of the law. Therefore, in considering the regulations, we as a Committee had a meeting with the National Treasury who were led by the Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) of the National Treasury. These issues were raised before them and they understood very well after that meeting. Therefore, they actually understood very well that it was not possible to rescue these Regulations and the only route was to annul them so that they can rectify and bring them back before the committee for approval, in order to be in line with the law. The second reason why the Committee annulled these Regulations is because the law requires that the Regulations must be accompanied by an explanatory memorandum when it is tabled before the House. The explanatory memorandum is supposed to let us know whether there was public participation. In this case, there was none. The third reason we are annulling this law is that, Section 13 of the Statutory Instruments Act clearly says that the Committee cannot approve legislation, if it appears to have had an unjustifiable delay in the publication or laying it before Parliament. I hope the Leader of the Majority Party is listening."
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