ZAMBI..
Zambia Caiq. 1956)
National Assembly
(Powers and Privileges)
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23. Any person shall be guilty of an offence who-
(a) assaults, obstructs or insults any member or officer going to or from the precincts of the Assembly Cham- ber; or
(b) endeavours to compel, either directly or indirectly, any member by force, insult or menace to declare himself in favour of, or against, any Bill, resolution. matter, rule or thing submitted to, or intended to be submitted to, the Assembly; or
(c) assaults, interferes with, resists or obstructs any officer
while in the execution of his duty as such officer; or (d) sends to any member any threatening letter, or chal- lenges any member to a fight, on account of his con- duct as such member.
24. Any person commits an offence who wilfully and without lawful cause fails to comply with, or contravenes, any order made under section seven or ten, or who wilfully fails to obey any other order of the Assembly whereby the Assembly is obstructed in the performance of its functions:
Provided that no offence is committed under this section unless the Speaker or an officer has drawn to the attention of the person concerned the fact that such failure or contravention is contrary to such order, and the person thereafter continues in such failure or contravention as aforesaid.
25. Any person who-
(a) publishes, save by the general or special leave of the Assembly, a report of any proceedings of the Assembly or any committee when such proceedings have not been held in public; or
(b) publishes any false or scandalous libel on the Assembly or any report which wilfully misrepresents in any way any proceedings of the Assembly or any committee;
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(c) publishes, save by the general or special leave of the Assembly, any paper, report or other document prepared expressly for submission to the Assembly before the same has been laid on the Table of the Assembly; or
(d) prints or causes to be printed a copy of any Act now or hereafter in force, or a copy of any report, paper or journals of the Assembly as purporting to have been printed by the Government Printer, or by or under the authority of the Assembly, or of the Speaker, and the same is not so printed; or
(e) tenders in evidence any such copy as purporting to be so printed knowing that the same was not so printed;
or
Other offences against members and officers
Disobedience
Other offences