{"id":183590,"date":"2024-10-30T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-finance-act-declared-constitutional-by-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:23:40","slug":"kenya-finance-act-declared-constitutional-by-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-finance-act-declared-constitutional-by-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Finance Act Declared Constitutional By Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Supreme Court has overturned a Court of Appeal (CoA) decision that had declared the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The seven-judge bench, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, ruled that Parliament adhered to public participation requirements when drafting the Finance Bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This judgment follows the CoA&#8217;s earlier ruling, which had deemed the Act unconstitutional due to insufficient public participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">While the apex court ruling represents a setback for Kenyans facing increased&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410300022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Supreme Court has overturned a Court of Appeal (CoA) decision that had declared the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional. The seven-judge bench, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, ruled that Parliament adhered to public participation requirements when drafting the Finance Bill. This judgment follows the CoA&#8217;s earlier ruling, which had deemed the Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":183591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6991,258,256,9729,6185,6583,7829,4688,430,257,254,9498],"class_list":["post-183590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constitutional","tag-court","tag-declared","tag-finance","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}