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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2022
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Parliamentary Privileges Amendment
(Royal Commission Response) Bill 2022
No. , 2022
(Senators Lambie and Tyrrell)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Parliamentary
Privileges Act 1987, and for related purposes
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Parliamentary Privileges Amendment (Royal Commission Response)
Bill 2022
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Contents
1 Short title ......................................................................................... 1
2 Commencement ............................................................................... 1
3 Schedules ......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
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No. , 2022
Parliamentary Privileges Amendment (Royal Commission Response)
Bill 2022
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Parliamentary
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Privileges Act 1987, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the
Parliamentary Privileges Amendment (Royal
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Commission Response) Act 2022
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments
Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
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1 After subsection 16(6)
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Insert:
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(6A) If a Royal Commission's terms of reference require an examination
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of government then, despite paragraph (3)(c), neither this section
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nor the Bill of Rights, 1688 shall be taken to prevent or restrict the
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admission of evidence before a Royal Commission for the purpose
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of drawing, or inviting the drawing of, inferences or conclusions
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wholly or partly from anything forming part of proceedings in
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Parliament.
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