section 18:
If a witness refuses to answer a question properly put to him, or to produce a paper which he has been directed to produce, the matter is usually reported to the House. In such cases the House has ordered the recalcitrant witness to attend at the bar, where he has been admonished by the Speaker as to the necessity of answering such questions as may be put by the committee."
It makes it an offence to give false evidence before the Council or a committee. Erskine May (p. 747) states -
"Similarly, witnesses who give false evidence, prevaricate, present forged or falsified documents to a committee with intent to deceive the committee, or attempt in any other way to deceive a committee, or who are guilty of disrespectful conduct to the committee in a state of intoxication are reported to the House to be dealt with as may be determined."
section ly:
lt is based on Parliamentary privilege both as respects members and officers of the Council and witnesses in proceedings before the Council or а committee. It deals with assaults, threats etc. to members, officers and witnesses. Erskine May (pp. 116, 156) states
"As yet the personal privilege of Members, and the ancient privilege of their servants, have alone been noticed. These were founded upon the necessity of enabling Members freely to attend to their duties in Parliament. Upon the same ground, a similar privilege of freedom from arrest and molestation is attached to all witnesses summoned to attend before either House of Parliament, or before parliamentary committees, and to others in personal attendance upon the business of Parliament, in coming, staying, and returning; and to officers of either House, in immediate attendance upon the service of Parliament. In the early Journals there are numerous orders that all persons attending in obedience to the orders of the House, and of committees, shall have the privilege or protection of the House.
It is a breach of privilege to molest a Member of either House while attending such House or when coming to or going from it.