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Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges)

22. Any person who-

(a) publishes, save by the general or special leave of the Coun- cil, a report of any proceedings of the Council or any committee when such proceedings have not been held in public; or

(b) publishes any false or scandalous libel on the Council or any report which wilfully misrepresents in any way any proceedings of the Council or any committee; or

(c) publishes, save by the general or special leave of the Coun- cil, any paper, report or other document prepared ex- pressly for submission to the Council before the same has been laid on the Table of the Council; or

(d) prints or causes to be printed a copy of any Ordinance now or hereafter in force or a copy of any report, paper or journals of the Council as purporting to have been printed by the Government Printers, or by or under the authority of the Council, or of the Speaker, and the same is not so printed; or

(e) tenders in evidence any such copy as purporting to be so

printed knowing the same was not so printed,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to im- prisonment for twelve months or to a fine of £250 or to both such imprisonment and fine.

23. (1) Where any member commits any contempt of the Council whether specified in Section 19 or otherwise, the Coun- cil may, by resolution, either direct the Speaker to reprimand such member or suspend him from the service of the Council for such period as it may determine:

Provided that such period shall not extend beyond the last day of the meeting next following that in which the resolution is passed, or of the session in which the resolution is passed, whichever shall first occur.

(2) No salary or allowance payable to a member of the Council for his service as such shall be paid in respect of any period during which he is suspended from the service of the Council under the provisions of this section.

(3) If any person not being a member commits a contempt whether specified in Section 19 or otherwise, the Council may, by resolution, direct that the Speaker shall order such person to appear before the Council and that he shall, upon such attendance, reprimand him at the Bar of the Council,

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Other offences.

Powers of

the Council.