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Legislative Assembly Powers and Privileges Amendment Act 1979

COOK ISLANDS

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY POWERS AND PRIVILEGES AMENDMENT ACT 1979

ANALYSIS

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1. Short Title
2. Privileges of Assembly

1979, No. 1

An Act to amend the Legislative Assembly Powers and Privileges Act 1967

(21 September 1979

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Legislative Assembly Powers and Privileges Amendment Act 1979, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Legislative Assembly Powers and Privileges Act 1967 (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Act").

2. Privileges of Assembly

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting after Section 4 and before Section 5 the following section:

"4a Privileges of Assembly
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Assembly and the Committees and Members thereof shall have, hold, enjoy and exercise the like privileges, immunities and powers as are held enjoyed and exercised by the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and by the Committees and Members thereof whether such privileges, immunities and powers are held possessed or enjoyed by custom, statute or otherwise, and the Leader of the House may at any time give such instructions as may be necessary to ensure the orderly progress of parliamentary business and which are authorised or ratified by the Assembly."

This Act is administered in the Legislative Service.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the Authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1979