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    "id": 859327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Parliamentary Service Bill be now read a Second Time: The Parliamentary Service Bill 2018 is an Act of Parliament to first make further provisions as regards the Parliamentary Service Commission and Parliamentary Service as re- established under the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Secondly, it is to repeal and replace the Parliamentary Service Act, 2000 for connected purposes. This Bill is enacted and is necessary for a number of reasons. Before I go to the specific provisions of the Bill, I wish to say that this Bill’s enactment is necessary because the current Parliamentary Act, Cap 185(a) of the Laws of Kenya was enacted under the former Constitution, to give effect to Section 45A and Section 45B of the former Constitution. That particular legislation established Parliamentary Service and Parliamentary Service Commission respectively. These provisions of the former Constitution are no longer in force. In their place there is now Article 127 of our new Constitution and Article 128 which establishes the Parliamentary Service Commission and provides for the offices of the two Clerks of the two Houses of the Parliamentary Service. Therefore, in light of this and other changes in the new Constitution, it has become very necessary to review the Parliamentary Service Act, 2000 to ensure that it complies with the provisions of the new Constitution. That is a very important point to note. We want to realign the new Bill to the New Constitution. The second reason is, the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution provides for a period of five years for the enactment of a new legislation required to implement the Constitution. Although Parliament extended this period, the Parliamentary Service Act, 2000 needs a review in order to comply with the requirement of the Fifth Schedule of the new Constitution. Lastly, the House has already reviewed the statutes of the other two constitutional commissions that existed together with the Parliamentary Service Commission prior to the coming in of the new Commission, that is the Public Service Commission and the Judicial Service Commission. This House has passed statutes relating to those two commissions and we have not been able to pass a statute that can deal with the Parliamentary Service Commission. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}