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President. These are:-

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(a) to issue

directive a

that a person be

ordered to attend before Council to give evidence;

(b) to issue

warrant a

for the arrest of a

to attend before

person failing to comply with a summons

Council or a committee;

on

(c) to exempt a person ordered to attend before

Council from answering questions or giving evidence

grounds of privacy or irrelevance, or, to order the person

to answer;

(d) to exercise the powers conferred on him by

the Ordinance, even though the Council has been dissolved.

13.

Items (a), (b) and (c) in paragraph 12 relate to

the power of the Council to require people to attend and

to

seem

It does not reply to questions lawfully put.

appropriate that they should be exercised by an executive

authority outside the Council.

Item (d) in paragraph 12 relates to

the

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