William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 971 to 980 of 1616.

• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the reason as to why we have this Report before us today is that we are recommending that the House annuls certain sections of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Regulations, 2014. It is important for this House to know that we delegated the power of making regulations to various institutions and Ministries. It is our business, when we receive Regulations, to confirm that they have been properly done and that they conform to the Constitution, the relevant law and any other written law. So, it is not our business to take away the same powers that we delegated. ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Devolution and Planning formulated the CDF Regulations, 2014, which were tabled before the House, and which you referred to a joint CDF and Delegated Legislation Committee. We had five sittings, during which we had the benefit of listening to the CDF Committee. It is important for this House to know that prior to these Regulations being brought to the House, the CDF Committee had consulted the CDF board and the relevant Ministry. Therefore, the CDF Committee had already taken a stand and agreed on certain directions with the Ministry. Hon. Speaker, therefore, in ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Secretariat, the CDF board and the Cabinet Secretary, the Committee came up with appropriate recommendations. It is important for hon. Members to take note of the proposed annulments because they will have a direct effect on the running of CDF programmes in our constituencies. On Regulation 5, as presented by the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning, the Committee has proposed an annulment of the same Regulation. As presented, the Regulation gives a 14 days’ notice for public meetings to be held. The feeling of the Committee, after looking at the general provisions of the Act, is that the proposed ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The third one is regulation 14, which provides for the procedure of convening CDF meetings, issuing notices, provides quorum and general management of meetings. This is one of the cases where these proposed regulations are purporting to do what is already provided for by the CDF Act. The conduct of business and affairs of the CDF Committee is clearly provided for under Sections 4 and 7 of the CDF Act. It is, therefore, not necessary to have this proposed regulation because it contravenes, or rather provides, what is already provided for under the Act. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Regulation 15(3)(b) provides for the establishment of CDF inspection and acceptance sub-committee. The establishment of that sub-committee is actually welcome because it is a good practice. This requirement to establish an inspection and acceptance sub-committee is already provided for by an existing legislation. The requirement should The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: have provided for membership of such a sub-committee and a clear inclusion of a technical person as a member of that proposed sub-committee. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The last one which we propose to annul is Regulation 22(3)(b). The essence of this regulation is to increase the number of signatories to the CDF bank accounts. Section 42(3) of the CDF Act is clear as to the signatories to the CDF accounts. Any attempt by this regulation to increase the number of signatories is ultravires the provisions of the CDF Act. We propose that this proposed regulation be annulled. You realize that our recommendation on the five proposed regulations is to be annulled and not to make new regulations. But if they are approved, it will be for ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Our Report is very clear that in addition to the annulment of regulations 5, 9(2), 14, 15(3)(b) and 22(3)(d), there is another area which I wanted to clarify; I had said earlier that we are not supposed to make regulations. If you read Section 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act, we are supposed to receive in this House published regulations. I am aware Standing Order No.210 does not make it mandatory, but it is a requirement that we deal with this issue. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The regulations-making body is a new concept and we are developing our procedures and rules on this particular issue. These regulations, which are in a draft form, are before this House. I want to say where there are draft regulations, which are not gazetted or published pursuant to Section 11 of the Act, under Section 16 of the Act, we are allowed, as a House, to engage the regulation-making Authority to give comments and proposals, because the regulations are meant for the benefit of the Kenyan people and not anybody else. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: In addition to the annulment of the regulations which I have mentioned, the Committee recommends to the Cabinet Secretary to consider inclusion of the regulations agreed upon during the consultative meetings between the CDF Committee, the Board and the Ministry. view