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composition specified accordingly, and it is therefore

appropriate that this particular power should also be

conferred on a select committee only as a deliberate

act. (It is intended to make an amendment to Standing

Order 60 to specify that the Finance Committee is a

Standing Committee.)

12.

Clauses 10, 11 and 12 specify the means by

which a witness can be summonsed and put on oath.

Clause 13 gives the President powers to excuse a witness

from giving evidence or producing documents

grounds that the evidence requested is of a

nature which does not affect the subject of enquiry.

on the

a private

13.

Clause 14(1) gives a witness the same

protection as he would have before a court of law in

respect of evidence. Clause 14(2) provides that those

armed forces under the day-to-day control of the

Commander British Forces shall not be the subject of

examination by the Council, or a committee of the

Council, other than with the consent of the Governor.

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