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No. 6 of 1979.]
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES).
"Member" means a Member of the Council; "officer of the Council" means the Clerk and any
other person appointed to an office for the service of the Council, any person acting within the precincts of the Council's meeting place under the orders of the Speaker, and includes any police officer while on duty within the precincts of the Council's meeting place;
"precincts of the Council's meeting place" includes the Chamber of the Council and the whole building in which the chamber of the Council is situated and the curtilage thereof (subject to any exceptions made by the Speaker by notice authenticated by the Clerk and displayed ad- jacent to any place concerned) and any offices, committee rooms, galleries or other places provided for the use of Members or for the accommodation of members of the public, the press and other strangers during such time as the Council is sitting;
"Standing Orders" means the Standing Orders of
the Council;
"stranger" means any person who is not a Member
or an officer of the Council.
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Protection in
respect of words spoken, etc.
Immunity from
arrest.
PART II.
Privileges and Immunities.
3. No civil or criminal proceedings may be insti- tuted against any Member for words spoken before or written in a report to the Council or to a committee, or by reason of any matter or thing brought before the Council by him by any Bill, motion, petition or other-
wise.
4. No member shall be liable to arrest--
(a) under any civil process whilst going to, attending at or returning from any sitting of the Council or any committee;
(b) within the precincts of the Council's meet- ing place, while the Council or a committee is sit-
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