Session 2013 - 14
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Other Bills before Parliament
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| For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:
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| Deregulation Bill, As Amended |
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| Schedule 18, page 162, line 22, at end insert— |
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| | Defamation Act 1996 (c.31) |
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| | 34A | Omit section 13 of the Defamation Act 1996 (which allows an individual |
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| | litigant in defamation cases to waive the ban in Article IX of the Bill of Rights |
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| | on proceedings in Parliament being impeached or questioned in court).’. |
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| | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | The Joint Committees on Parliamentary Privilege in 1999 and 2013 both recommended the repeal |
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| | of this hardly-used provision. |
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