Chapter 17 - Witnesses
Evidence
given elsewhere by senators or officers
Senators or officers of the
Senate may not give evidence before any other body in respect of proceedings of
the Senate or its committees without the permission of the Senate, or, if the
President is authorised by the Senate to give permission, of the President (SO 183). The rationale
of this rule is that the Senate should know of any evidence given elsewhere in
relation to its proceedings so that it may ensure that such evidence is not
given contrary to the law relating to the protection of parliamentary
proceedings from question in other bodies. (For precedent see 27/6/1996,
J.423.)
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