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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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