Parliamentary Privilege - First Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 30 March 1999.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER 1: THE NEED FOR A REVIEW
CHAPTER 2: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ARTICLE
9 OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
CHAPTER 3: BRIBERY AND ARTICLE 9
CHAPTER 4: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SELF-REGULATION
CHAPTER 5: CONTROL BY PARLIAMENT OVER ITS
AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 6: DISCIPLINARY AND PENAL POWERS
CHAPTER 7: OTHER PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 8: PUBLICATION OF PAPERS AND REPORTING
OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS
CHAPTER 9: A PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGES ACT
ANNEXES
A. Section 13 of the Defamation Act 1996
B. `Proceedings in Parliament': definitions
C. Bribery legislation in Australia
D. Law Commission's draft Corruption
Bill
E. Sub judice resolutions and practice
F. Relevant provisions from the Contempt
of Court Act 1981
G. Right of reply scheme in the New South
Wales Legislative Council
H. Parliamentary Papers Act 1840 (as
amended)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
LIST OF WITNESSES—ORAL EVIDENCE (VOLUME
2)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE (VOLUME 3)
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE PRINTED AS VOLUME II
WRITTEN EVIDENCE PRINTED AS VOLUME III
Note. In this report the term `member'
is used to refer to a member of either House of Parliament; the
term `non-member' is used in preference to the traditional term
`stranger' and means everyone who is not a member of one of the
two Houses of Parliament. References to `the House' are references
to both Houses unless the context requires otherwise. The masculine
form of pronouns and adjectives includes the feminine, and vice
versa, unless the context requires otherwise.
| 
