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On a matter of detail, the question has been raised

to whether legal representatives of witnesses when they There have sttend Committees will be admitted: they will. alzo been questions about the procedures to be adopted by look Select Committees. Thess Committees generally cannot into private affairs, and the private lives of individuals

are protected by clauses already

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Finally the jurisdiction of a

included in the Bill,

Select Committee of this

Council is defined by its terms of reference which in turn are stamped with the authority of the legislature itself.

That then, Sir, la the agenda item for today;

there

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Legislation today is linked in an organic way to the other I have described. Few pieces of Legislation in recent years have had the detailed scrutiny and the benefit

A A this and advice

Bill has much useful BO

Comment received. We have proceeded, after the Introduction and the the First Reading six weeks ago, principles at the Second Reading and the consideration of Dany comprehensive amendments at that Second Reading after a month of public debate; now, after a further fortoight in

which

additional

improvements

of the endorsement

to the

have

been

Buggested and

amendments

considered and, where desirable, the necessary

put forward, we come to the end of the Third Reading of the

Bill after a careful clause by clause debate,

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