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Exemption from

liability in

120

Malaya

(orig 1952)

No. 15 of 1952.

9. No person shall be liable in damages or otherwise for any act done under the authority of the Legislative damages for Council, and within its legal powers or under any any act done warrant issued by virtue of those powers.

under the

authority of the Council.

Power of Council to punish for

the Council.

of

10. The Legislative Council may, for or in respect any of the offences hereinafter mentioned, whether contempt of committed by a member or by any other person, summarily punish for contempt by fine as provided by the standing orders or by this Ordinance; and if any such fine so imposed be not immediately paid the offender shall be committed to the custody of the keeper of any gaol or of an officer of the Legislative Council in such place as it may direct until payment be made or until the Council is dissolved or prorogued, whichever be the earlier.

The said offences shall be:

(a) disobedience to any order for attendance or for production of papers, books, records, or documents made by the Legislative Council or any committee duly authorized in that behalf, unless the attendance or production be excused as provided in section 20 of this Ordinance;

(b) refusing to be examined before or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by the Legislative Council or any such com- mittee, unless such refusal be excused as provided in section 20 of this Ordinance; (c) the wilful failure or refusal to obey any rule, order, or resolution of the Legislative Council;

(d) the offering to or acceptance by any member or officer of a bribe to influence him in his conduct as such member or officer, or the offering to or acceptance by any member or officer of any fee, compensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any bill, resolution, matter, rule, or thing submitted to or intended to be submitted to the Legislative Council or any committee;

(e) assaulting, obstructing, or insulting any member coming to or going from the Legis- lative Council or on account of his conduct in the Legislative Council or endeavouring

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