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Quelle: Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege - Freedom of Speech 1999 Seite(n): 1 (Internetquelle), Zeilen: - |
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| No comprehensive definition has been determined either by Parliament or by judicial decision.300 In 1689, when parliamentary proceedings were much simpler, a definition may have been thought unnecessary. But this is not so when the phrase is applied to present day parliamentary activities and members’ activities. In several respects the scope of this expression is not clear today.
The broad description in Erskine May is a useful starting place: “The primary meaning of proceedings, as a technical parliamentary term … is some formal action, usually a decision, taken by the House in its collective capacity. This is naturally extended to the forms of business in which the House takes action, and the whole process, the principal part of which is debate, by which it reaches a decision. An individual member takes part in a proceeding usually by speech, but also by various recognized forms of formal action, such as voting, giving notice of a motion, or presenting a petition or report from a committee, most of such actions being time-saving substitutes for speaking. Officers of the House take part in its proceedings principally by carrying out its orders, general or particular. Strangers [also may take part in the proceedings of a House, for example by giving evidence before it or one of its committees, or by securing presentation of a petition.”301] 300 See, Gareth Griffith, Parliamentary Privilege: Use, Misuse and Proposals for Reform, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/key/ParliamentaryPrivelige:MajorDevelopmentsandCurrentIssues. [301 May, 22nd ed., 1997, p.95. While referring to this definition, J P Joseph Maingot, Parliamentary Privilege in Canada(2nd ed), McGill-Queen’s University press, 1997, p.80 gives this supplementary definition: “As a technical parliamentary term, ‘proceedings’are the events and the steps leading up to some formal action, including a decision, taken by the House in its collective capacity. All of these steps and events, the whole process by which the House reaches a decision (the principal part of which is called debate), are “proceedings”.] |
97. [...] No comprehensive definition has been determined either by Parliament or by judicial decision. In 1689, when parliamentary proceedings were much simpler, a definition may have been thought unnecessary. But this is not so when the phrase is applied to present day parliamentary activities and members' activities. In several respects the scope of this expression is not clear today. [...] [151]
98. The broad description in Erskine May is a useful starting place: `The primary meaning of proceedings, as a technical parliamentary term, . . . is some formal action, usually a decision, taken by the House in its collective capacity. This is naturally extended to the forms of business in which the House takes action, and the whole process, the principal part of which is debate, by which it reaches a decision. An individual member takes part in a proceeding usually by speech, but also by various recognised forms of formal action, such as voting, giving notice of a motion, or presenting a petition or report from a committee, most of such actions being time-saving substitutes for speaking. Officers of the House take part in its proceedings principally by carrying out its orders, general or particular. Strangers also may take part in the proceedings of a House, for example by giving evidence before it or one of its committees, or by securing presentation of a petition.'[152] 151 For references see footnote 18 above. 152 22nd ed (1997), p 95. While referring to this definition, J P Joseph Maingot QC, in Parliamentary Privilege in Canada (1997), p 80 gives this supplementary definition: `As a technical parliamentary term, `proceedings' are the events and the steps leading up to some formal action, including a decision, taken by the House in its collective capacity. All of these steps and events, the whole process by which the House reaches a decision (the principal part of which is called debate), are `proceedings. |
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