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composition specified accordingly, and it is therefore
appropriate that this particular power should also be
conferred on a select committee only as a deliberate
act. (It is intended to make an amendment to Standing
Order 60 to specify that the Finance Committee is a
Standing Committee.)
12.
Clauses 10, 11 and 12 specify the means by
which a witness can be summonsed and put on oath.
Clause 13 gives the President powers to excuse a witness
from giving evidence or producing documents
grounds that the evidence requested is of a
nature which does not affect the subject of enquiry.
on the
a private
13.
Clause 14(1) gives a witness the same
protection as he would have before a court of law in
respect of evidence. Clause 14(2) provides that those
armed forces under the day-to-day control of the
Commander British Forces shall not be the subject of
examination by the Council, or a committee of the
Council, other than with the consent of the Governor.
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