Chapter
2 - Parliamentary Privilege: immunities and powers of the Senate
Immunities of the houses
This chapter will
now analyse the immunities of the Houses of the Parliament, the rationale of
those immunities and the issues involved in the declaration of and changes to
them which were made by the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 (here
referred to as “the 1987 Act”).
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