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Prescription of Parliamentary Privileges, Immunities and Powers Act 2007

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE PRESCRIPTION OF
PARLIAMENTARY
PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES AND
POWERS ACT 2007

(NO. 10 of 2007)

Passed by the National Parliament this twenty-third day of August 2007.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk of National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this thirty-first day of August 2007.

Sir Peter Kenilorea
Acting Governor-General

Date of commencement: date of publication in the Gazette

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESCRIPTION BY PARLIAMENT OF THE PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES AND POWERS OF PARLIAMENT AND ITS MEMBERS.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTIONS:

1. SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT

2. PRESCRIPTION OF PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES AND POWERS.

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Prescription of Parliamentary Privileges, Immunities and Powers Act 2007 and shall come into operation on the date of the publication of the Act in the Gazette.

Prescription of Parliamentary Privileges, Immunities and Powers

2. For the purposes of section 69 of the Constitution and until otherwise prescribed by Parliament, the privileges, immunities and powers of Parliament and its members shall be those of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its members existing as at July 7, 1978.

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