TNAG-1365-FCO40-1811-Hong-Kong-Legislative-Council-(Powers-and-Privileges)-Bill-1-1985 — Page 68

Jamaica

(orig. 1959)

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

(POWERS AND PRIVILEGES)

we

P(33)

11

17. Any person who—

Offences relating to

(a) being a stranger enters or attempts to enter the admittance

to either

precincts of either House in contravention of any House. order of the appropriate authority; or

(b) being a stranger fails or refuses to withdraw from the precincts of either House when ordered to withdraw therefrom by the appropriate authority;

ог

(c) contravenes any rule made by the appropriate

authority under the Standing Orders; or

(d) attends any sitting of either House as the representa- tive of any journal after the general permission granted under the Standing Orders to the repre- sentative or representatives of that journal has been revoked,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on summary con- viction before a Resident Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

18. Any person who-

(a) disobeys any order made by either House or a com- mittee or a joint committee for attendance or for production of papers, books, documents or records, unless such attendance or production be excused as hereinafter provided; or

(b) refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by, either House or a committee or a joint committee unless such refusal be excused as hereinbefore provided; or

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Other offences.