LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES).
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13. Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, no evidence in respect of the contents of minutes of evidence before the Council or a commit- tee shall be admissible before any court or any person authorised by law to take evidence, unless the court or such person is satisfied that permission has been given by the Speaker or the chairman of the committee (as the case may be) for such evidence to be given.
PART VI.
Offences.
14. Any proceedings before the Council or a committee at which any person gives evidence or pro- duces any paper, book, record or document, shall be deemed to be judicial proceedings for the purposes of any law for the time being in force relating to perjury.
15. Any person who
(a) being a stranger enters or attempts to enter the precincts of the Council's meeting place in contravention of any provisions of this Ordi- nance or the Standing Orders; or
(b) being a stranger fails or refuses to with- draw from the precincts of the Council's meeting place when ordered so to do in accordance with any provision of this Ordinance or the Standing Orders,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars or to imprisonment for three months or to both such fine and imprison-
ment.
16. Any person who-
Restriction on
evidence of cer-
tain matters.
Offences relating to perjury.
Offences relating
to admittance to the Council.
Offences affect- ing Members, officers and pro- ceedings of the
(a) assaults, molests or obstructs any Member coming to, being within or going from the precincts Council. of the Council's meeting place; or
(b) assaults, interferes with, resists or ob- structs any officer of the Council while in the execution of his duty; or
(c) threatens or assaults a Member or an officer of the Council on account of his conduct as such Member or officer; or
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