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
Contents
1 Short title........................................................................................................ 1
2 Commencement.............................................................................................. 1
3 Schedules....................................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Parliamentary Privileges Amendment (Royal Commission Response) Act 2022.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
1 After subsection 16(6)
Insert:
(6A) If a Royal Commission’s terms of reference require an examination of government then, despite paragraph (3)(c), neither this section nor the Bill of Rights, 1688 shall be taken to prevent or restrict the admission of evidence before a Royal Commission for the purpose of drawing, or inviting the drawing of, inferences or conclusions wholly or partly from anything forming part of proceedings in Parliament.