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Fiji (orig.1965)
Parliamentary Powers and Privileges
Cap. 5 Ed. 1978
of strangers to the precincts of *Parliament or either House thereof;
ог
(d) attends a sitting of the *House of Representatives or the Senate as the representative of any journal after the general permission granted under an order made under the provisions of this Act or under the Standing Orders to the representative or representatives of that journal has been revoked,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to such imprisonment without the option of a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Other offences
20. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 17, any person who-
(a) disobeys any order made by the House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee for attendance or for production of papers, books, documents or records, unless such attendance or production be excused as hereinbefore provided; or
(b) refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by the *House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee unless such refusal be excused as hereinbefore provided;
or
(c) offers, whether directly or indirectly, to any member or officer of Parliament any bribe, in order to influence him in his conduct as such member or officer, or offers to any member or officer of "Parliament any fee, compensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any Bill or matter submitted to or intended to be submitted to the House of Representatives; or (d) assaults, obstructs, molests or insults any member coming to, being within, or going from the precincts of Parliament or endeavours to compel any member by force, insult or menace to declare himself in favour of or against any proposition or matter pending in or expected to be brought before the "House of Representatives; or (e) assaults, molests, insults, resists or obstructs any officer of *Parliament while in the execution of his duty or while proceeding to or from *Parliament knowing or having reasonable grounds for believing him to be such an officer; or
(f) creates or joins in any disturbance, or incites any other person to create or join in any disturbance, which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the *House of Representatives or the Senate or any committee while the *House of Representatives or the Senate or such committee is sitting; or
(g) presents to the *House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document with intent to deceive the *House of Representatives or the Senate or such committee; or
* Amended by Order 8th October, 1970.
Inserted by Order 8th October, 1970.
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