Detail
7
Authority
UK Practice
t)
To enjoy right of access to the Governor
Not
specified
u) To enjoy exemption
from Jury Service
P&P
Ordinance
s.6
Jury
Ordinance
s.5
IV.
To be considered further
Detail
a)
To issue directives
b)
c)
that persons should be ordered to attend to give evidence
To issue warrants for the arrest of persons who fail to comply with summonses to attend before the Council etc
To exempt a person ordered to attend from answering
questions or giving evidence on grounds of privacy or irrele-
vance or to order the person to answer
d)
To exercise the
powers conferred by
the P&P Ordinance
even though the Council has been dissolved
Commons as a body has right of access to the Sovereign via the
-
Speaker. This right does not extend to
individual
Members
Remarks
Jury Ordinance
may need amendment
if
President
is not a Member of LegCo
Authority
UK Practice
Remarks
P&P
Ordinance s.10(1)
P&P
Ordinance s.12
P&P
Ordinance s.13
Speaker on orders of the House
s.12(6) empowers
the Governor to prescribe the form of warrants
P&P
Ordinance s.24
Clerk of the House
Presumably the President
continues to hoi office after a dissolution unti: his term expires
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