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President. These are:-
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(a) to issue
directive a
that a person be
ordered to attend before Council to give evidence;
(b) to issue
warrant a
for the arrest of a
to attend before
person failing to comply with a summons
Council or a committee;
on
(c) to exempt a person ordered to attend before
Council from answering questions or giving evidence
grounds of privacy or irrelevance, or, to order the person
to answer;
(d) to exercise the powers conferred on him by
the Ordinance, even though the Council has been dissolved.
13.
Items (a), (b) and (c) in paragraph 12 relate to
the power of the Council to require people to attend and
to
seem
It does not reply to questions lawfully put.
appropriate that they should be exercised by an executive
authority outside the Council.
Item (d) in paragraph 12 relates to
the
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