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provides immunity from the service of civil process

within the precincts of the Council while the Council is

sitting. These provisions thus reflect the privileges

noted in paragraph 3(b).

10.

Clause 6 establishes that strangers, i.e.

anybody other than the Members or officers of the

Council, are admitted to the precincts of the Council on

sufferance only. Accordingly Clause 8 allows the

President or any officer authorised by him to order the

withdrawal of any stranger from

any stranger from the precincts of the

Council. Clause 7 gives the President powers to make

orders regulating the admittance of strangers to the

Council and its precincts.

11.

Clause 9(1) gives the Council, or any Standing

Committee of the Council, the power to order a witness

to attend before it to give evidence. Clause 9(2)

to confer these powers on a select

allows the Council

committee. Select committees are set up under Standing

Orders for specific purposes,

with their powers and

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