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Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges).

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member excluded from Chamber and precincts of Council.

15. A member who has been suspended from the service Suspended of the Council shall not enter or remain within the Chamber or precincts of the Council while such suspension remains in force, and, if any such member is found within the Chamber or precincts of the Council in contravention of this section, he may be forcibly removed therefrom by any officer of the Council and no proceeding shall lie in any court against such officer in respect of such removal.

16. No evidence relating to any of the following matters, that is to say-

(a) debates or other proceedings in the Council;

(b) the contents of the minutes of evidence taken, or any documents laid or any proceedings or examinations held, before any such committee,

by any member or officer of the Council or any shorthand writer employed to take minutes of any such evidence or proceedings, in respect of any of the matters specified in paragraph (b), by any person who was a witness before the committee shall be admiss- ible in any proceedings before a court or person authorized by law to take evidence unless the court or such last mentioned person is satisfied that permission has been given by the Speaker for such evidence to be given.

17. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance a copy of the Journals of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland printed or purporting to be printed by the order or by the printer of the Commons House aforesaid shall be received as prima facie evi- dence without proof of its being such copy upon any enquiry touching the privileges, immunities and powers of the Council or of any member.

18. Upon any enquiry touching the privileges, immunities and powers of the Council or of any member, any copy of the journals printed or purporting to be printed by the Government Printer shall be admitted as evidence of such journals in all courts and places without any proof being given that such copy was so printed.

Restriction on evidence as to certain matters.

Commons Journals to be prima facie evidence in enquiries touching privilege.

Journals printed by order of Council to be admitted as evidence.