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Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges)

6. (1) No member or officer and no person employed to take or transcribe minutes of evidence before the Council or any committee shall give evidence elsewhere respecting the contents of such minutes of evidence or of the contents of any docu- ment laid before the Council or committee, as the case may be, or respecting any proceedings or examination held before the Council or committee, as the case may be, without the special leave of the Council first had and obtained.

(2) The special leave referred to in subsection (1) of this section may be given during a recess or adjournment by the Speaker.

7. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, no process issued by any court in Gibraltar or outside Gibraltar in exer- cise of its civil jurisdiction shall be served or executed within the precincts of the Council Chamber while the Council or a committee is sitting or through the Speaker or any officer of the Council, nor shall any member be arrested on civil process, save by leave of the Speaker first obtained, while he is within the precincts of the Council Chamber and while the Council or a committee is sitting.

PART II EVIDENCE.

8. (1) The Council or any standing committee may, subject to the provisions of Sections 11, 12 and 17, order any person to attend before the Council or before such committee and to give evidence or to produce any paper, book, record or docu- ment in the possession or under the control of such person.

(2) The powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section on a standing committee may be exercised by any other committee which is specially authorized by the Council to exercise such

powers.

9. (1) Any order to attend to give evidence or to produce documents before the Council or an authorized committee shall be notified to the person required to attend or to produce docu- ments by a summons under the hand of the Clerk issued by the direction of the Speaker.

(2) In every summons under subsection (1) of this section there shall be stated the time when and the place where the person summoned is required to attend and the particular docu- ments which he is required to produce. The summons shall 5

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Evidence of proceedings in Council or committee not to be given without leave.

Civil process not to be served nor members arrested on

civil process within precincts of the Council Chamber.

Power to order attendance of witnesses.

Attendance to be notified by

summons.