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    "id": 861125,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "This regulation has gone through the National Assembly, but it has not come to the Senate. If it does not address that aspect, then we, as the Senators who represent counties, will have to be careful to scrutinize it and make sure they address community land. If we do not have that opportunity to do so, this otherwise good law might not be properly implemented because of regulations which do not come to this House. We cannot confirm whether what we legislated on is what the regulations are addressing. Also, on whether the regulation-making authority, using the powers which have been given by Parliament, is doing the right thing. This is why they bring their regulations to be approved. We, as Senate, have to make sure that any law we pass and which donates regulation-making powers to another body – in this case an Executive office such as the CS – then we must make sure before that regulation is implemented we have to approve it again. The amendment which is made to this law is that once the regulation-making authority makes the regulation and gazettes it within seven days, it has to be brought to the two Clerks. The two Houses go through the regulations so that approval is sought from the two Houses. The two Houses must enact that law. If you check, this law came into effect in 2013. Perhaps the Senate was not in place then, or it had not fully grasped the amendments on this law. At this point in time, we have to come in and make sure that we, as Senate, try to avoid this to reclaim our ground. This is because it has been the tendency of the National Assembly to always see how they can bypass the Senate. Unfortunately, during the first Senate in the Eleventh Parliament, many Bills bypassed the Senate, yet they were supposed to have come through Senate. They, instead, went directly to the President for assent. They, therefore, became law before passing this House. At one time, we had to seek advice from the Supreme Court on these Bills which concern counties. We sought an opinion as to what is a matter or Bill concerning counties. In fact, the ruling we got was that there is nothing which does not concern counties, because all these laws will be implemented in one or another county. We cannot say that there are matters which do not concern counties. Whenever a regulation is brought, it has to go to the two Clerks. They introduce it to the two Houses and we all have to make our contribution to it. This is to make sure that the regulations which were made by this House or the two Houses are addressing what we have---"
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