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ENDNOTES Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision) PARLIAMENT (IMMUNITIES, POWERS AND PRIVILEGES) ACT (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_1\", \"num\": \"1.\", \"text\": \"Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_2\", \"num\": \"2.\", \"text\": \"Interpretation 2. In this Act \u2014 \u201cClerk\u201d means the Clerk of the Parliament; \u201ccommittee\u201d means any standing, select, special or other committee appointed by a resolution of the Parliament; \u201cjournals\u201d mean the minutes of the Parliament and the official record of the votes or proceedings thereof; \u201cmeeting\u201d means the whole or any part of a session, irrespective of adjournments, at which the business set out in the Business Paper for the meeting is disposed of; \u201cmember\u201d means a member of the Parliament; \u201cofficer of the Parliament\u201d means a person appointed to the staff of the Parliament whether permanently or temporarily and includes the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms on duty within the precincts of the Parliament; \u201cParliament\u201d means the Parliament of the Islands; Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision) \u201cprecincts of the Parliament\u201d means the entire building in which the Parliament sits in session for the transaction of business, together with the car park, the front steps and all areas within the curtilage of the building; \u201csession\u201d means the meetings of the Parliament commencing when the Parliament first meets after being constituted, or after its prorogation or dissolution at any time, and terminating when the Parliament is prorogued or dissolved without having been prorogued; \u201cSpeaker\u201d means the Speaker of the Parliament and includes the Deputy Speaker and any other member of the Parliament when such other member is presiding at a meeting of the Parliament; \u201cStanding Orders\u201d means the Standing Orders of the Parliament referred to in section 71 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [UKSI 2009 No. 1379]; and \u201cstranger\u201d means any person other than a member or officer of the Parliament.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Immunity from legal proceedings 3. No civil or criminal proceedings may be instituted against any member for words spoken before, or written in a report to, the Parliament of which that person is a member or to a committee thereof or by reason of any matter or thing brought by that person therein by petition, bill, resolution, motion or otherwise, nor shall any such proceedings be instituted against any person in respect of such words broadcast or rebroadcast by any broadcasting station licensed under the Information and Communications Technology Authority Act (2011 Revision), or wholly owned by the Government of the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Privileges 4. No member shall be liable for arrest for any civil debt except a debt the contraction of which constitutes a criminal offence, whilst going to, attending at or returning from a meeting of the Parliament or any committee.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Power to order attendance of witness 5. (1) The Parliament or any standing committee may, subject to sections 9 and 12, order any person to attend before such Parliament or committee and give evidence or produce any paper, book, record or document in that person\u2019s possession or control. (2) The powers conferred by subsection (1) on a standing committee may be exercised by any other committee which is specially authorised by a resolution of the Parliament by which such committee is appointed to exercise such powers in respect of any matter or question specified in the resolution. Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Order to attend to be notified by summons 6. (1) Any order to attend, give evidence or produce documents before the Parliament or a committee shall be notified to the person required to attend or produce documents by a summons under the hand of the Clerk issued by the direction of the Speaker. (2) In every summons under subsection (1) there shall be stated the time when and the place where the person summoned is required to attend and the particular documents which that person is required to produce, and the summons shall be served on the person mentioned therein either by delivering to that person a copy or by leaving a copy at that person\u2019s usual or last known place of abode in the Islands, with some adult person; and there shall be paid or tendered to the person so summoned, if that person does not reside within four miles of the place of attendance specified in the summons, such sum for that person\u2019s expenses as may be prescribed by standing order or authorised by order of the Parliament. (3) A summons under this section may be served by a constable.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Witnesses may be examined on oath 7. The Parliament or any committee may require that any facts, matters and things relating to the subject of enquiry before such Parliament or committee be verified or otherwise ascertained by the oral examination of witnesses, and may cause any such witnesses to be examined upon oath, which the Speaker or the Chairperson of the committee, as the case may be, or other person specially appointed for that purpose, is hereby authorised to administer.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Objection to answer questions or to produce papers 8. (1) Where any person ordered to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book, record or document before the Parliament refuses to answer any question put to that person or to produce any such paper, book, record or document on the ground that it is of a private nature and does not affect the subject of enquiry, the Speaker may excuse the answering of such question or the production of such paper, book, record or document, or may order the answering or production thereof. (2) Where any person ordered to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book, record or document before any committee refuses to answer any question put to that person or to produce any such paper, book, record or document on the ground that the same is of a private nature and does not affect the subject of enquiry, the Chairperson of the committee may report such refusal to the Speaker with the reasons therefor; and the Speaker may thereupon excuse the answering of such question or the production of such paper, book, record or document or order the answering or production thereof. Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Privileges of witnesses 9. (1) Every person summoned to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book, record or document before the Parliament or a committee is entitled, in respect of such evidence, the disclosure of any communication or the production of any such paper, book, record or document, to the same right or privilege as before the Grand Court. (2) Except with the consent of the Governor, no public officer shall \u2014 (a) produce before the Parliament or a committee any such paper, book, record or document; or (b) give before the Parliament or a committee evidence on any such matter, as relates to or forms part of the correspondence of any naval, military, air force or civil department or to any matter affecting the public service; nor shall secondary evidence be received by or produced before the Parliament or a committee of the contents of any such paper, book, record or document.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Certificate issued to witnesses making full disclosure to be a bar to proceedings 10. (1) Every witness before the Parliament or a committee who answers fully and faithfully any questions put to that person by the Parliament or such committee to its satisfaction is entitled to receive a certificate stating that that person was upon that person\u2019s examination so required to answer and did answer any such question. (2) Every certificate under subsection (1) shall, in the case of a witness before the Parliament, be under the hand of the Speaker, and in the case of a witness before any committee be under the hand of the Chairperson thereof. (3) On production of such certificate to any court of law such court shall stay any proceedings, civil or criminal, except for a charge under section 103 or 104 of the Penal Code (2024 Revision), against such witness by reasons of anything which the witness may have said in such evidence, and may, in its discretion, award to such witness such expenses as the witness may have incurred. (4) Except in proceedings under section 103 or 104 of the Penal Code (2024 Revision) no statement made by any person in evidence given before the Parliament or a committee shall be admissible in evidence against that person in any civil or criminal proceedings.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Evidence of proceedings in Parliament or committee not to be given without leave 11. (1) No evidence relating to \u2014 (a) debates or proceedings in the Parliament; or Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision) (b) the contents of the minutes of evidence taken or any document laid before the Parliament or a committee or any proceedings of or before, or any examination had before, the Parliament or any such committee, is admissible in any proceedings before a court or person authorised by law to take evidence unless the court or such person is satisfied that permission has been granted by the Speaker for such evidence to be given. (2) The permission referred to in subsection (1) may be given during a recess or adjournment by the Speaker.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Certain questions to be determined in accordance with usage of Parliament 12. Where, at any time, any question arises in the Parliament or in committee in regard to \u2014 (a) the right or power of the Parliament or a committee to hear, admit or receive oral evidence; (b) the right or power of the Parliament or a committee to peruse or examine any paper, book, record or document or to summon, direct or call upon any person to produce any paper, book, record or document before the Parliament or committee; or (c) the right or privilege of any person (including a member of the Parliament or committee) to refuse to produce any paper, book, record or document or to lay any paper, book, record or document before the Parliament or committee, that question shall, subject to this Act, and except insofar as express provision is made herein for the determination of that question, be determined in accordance with the usage and practice of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_13\", \"num\": \"13.\", \"text\": \"Right to enter Parliament 13. No stranger shall be entitled, as of right, to enter or to remain within the precincts of the Parliament.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_14\", \"num\": \"14.\", \"text\": \"Power of appropriate authority to regulate admittance to Parliament 14. (1) The Speaker is authorised to issue such orders as the Speaker deems necessary for the regulation of the admittance of strangers to the precincts of the Parliament. (2) Copies of orders made by the Speaker under subsection (1) shall be duly authenticated by the Clerk and exhibited in a conspicuous position in the precincts of the Parliament to which they relate; and such copies, when so authenticated and exhibited, shall be sufficient notice to all persons affected thereby. Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_15\", \"num\": \"15.\", \"text\": \"Power of Speaker to order withdrawal from Parliament 15. The Speaker may, at any time, order any stranger to withdraw from the precincts of the Parliament.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_16\", \"num\": \"16.\", \"text\": \"False evidence 16. Any person who before the Parliament or a committee intentionally gives a false answer to a question material to the subject of enquiry put to that person during the course of any examination commits an offence \u2014 (a) if such answer was given on oath, against section 104 of the Penal Code (2024 Revision); or (b) if such answer was given otherwise than on oath, against section 103 of the Penal Code (2024 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_17\", \"num\": \"17.\", \"text\": \"Offences relating to admittance to Parliament 17. A person who \u2014 (a) being a stranger, enters or attempts to enter the precincts of the Parliament in contravention of any order of the Speaker; (b) being a stranger, fails or refuses to withdraw from the precincts of the Parliament when ordered to withdraw therefrom by the Speaker; (c) being a stranger, contravenes any rule made by the Speaker under the Standing Orders; or (d) attends any sitting of the Parliament as the representative of any journal after the general permission granted under Standing Orders to the representative or representatives of that journal has been revoked, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars and to imprisonment for three months.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_18\", \"num\": \"18.\", \"text\": \"Other offences 18. (1) A person who \u2014 (a) disobeys an order made by the Parliament or a committee for attendance or for production of papers, books, documents or records, unless such attendance or production is excused under section 8(1). (b) refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by the Parliament or a committee unless such refusal is excused under section 8(2). (c) offers to any member of the Parliament any bribe, fee, compensation, gift or reward in order to influence that person in that person\u2019s conduct as such member, or for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any bill, resolution, matter, rules or things submitted to or intended to be submitted to the Parliament; Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision) (d) assaults, obstructs or insults any member coming to or going from the precincts of the Parliament, or endeavours to compel any member by force, insult or menace to declare themselves in favour of or against any proposition or matter pending or expected to be brought before the Parliament; (e) assaults, interferes with, resists or obstructs the Clerk while in the execution of the Clerk\u2019s duty; (f) creates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the Parliament while the Parliament is sitting; or (g) presents to the Parliament or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document with intent to deceive the Parliament, commits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine of one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months. (2) A person who \u2014 (a) publishes any statement, whether in writing or otherwise, which falsely or scandalously defames the Parliament or any committee, or which reflects on the character of the Speaker or the Chairperson of a committee in the discharge of that person\u2019s duty as such; (b) publishes any writing containing a gross, wilful or scandalous misrepresentation of the proceedings of the Parliament or a committee or of the speech of any member in the proceedings of the Parliament or a committee; (c) publishes any writing containing any false or scandalous libel on any member touching that person\u2019s conduct as a member; or (d) publishes any report or statement purporting to be a report of the proceedings of the Parliament in any case where such proceedings have been conducted after exclusion of the public by order of the Parliament, commits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine of eight hundred dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_19\", \"num\": \"19.\", \"text\": \"Director of Public Prosecutions to sanction prosecutions 19. No prosecution for an offence under this Act shall be instituted except with the written sanction of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_20\", \"num\": \"20.\", \"text\": \"Members not to receive compensation for promotion of or opposition to bills, etc. 20. Any member who accepts or receives either directly or indirectly any fee, compensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any bill, resolution, matter or thing submitted or intended to be submitted for the consideration of the Parliament commits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years, and in addition shall forfeit the amount of the value of the fee, compensation, gift or reward accepted by that member.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_21\", \"num\": \"21.\", \"text\": \"Journals printed by order of the Parliament to be admitted as evidence 21. Upon any enquiry touching the privileges, immunities and powers of the Parliament or of any member, any copy of the journals printed or purporting to be printed by any printer authorised by the Cabinet shall be admitted as evidence of such journals in all courts and places without any proof being given that such copy was so printed.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_22\", \"num\": \"22.\", \"text\": \"Penalty for printing false copies of law, journals, etc. 22. A person who prints or causes to be printed a copy of any law now or hereafter in force, or a copy of any report, paper, minutes or votes and proceedings of the Parliament as purporting to have been printed by any printer authorised by the Governor or Speaker, and the same is not so printed, or tenders in evidence any such copy as purporting to be so printed knowing that the same was not so printed, commits an offence and is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for three years.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_23\", \"num\": \"23.\", \"text\": \"Protection of persons responsible for publications authorised by Parliament 23. A person who being a defendant in any civil or criminal proceedings instituted for or on account or in respect of the publication by such person or by that person\u2019s servant, by order or under the authority of the Parliament, of any reports, papers, minutes, votes or proceedings, may, on giving to the plaintiff or prosecutor, as the case may be, twenty-four hours\u2019 written notice of that person\u2019s intention, bring before the Court in which such civil or criminal proceedings are being held a certificate under the hand of the Speaker stating that the reports, papers, minutes, votes or proceedings in respect whereof such proceedings have been instituted were published by such person or that person\u2019s servant by order or under the authority of the Parliament together with an affidavit certifying such certificate, and such court shall thereupon immediately stay such proceedings and the same and every process issued therein shall be deemed to be finally determined. Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_24\", \"num\": \"24.\", \"text\": \"Publication of proceedings without malice 24. In any civil or criminal proceedings instituted for publishing any extract from or abstract of any report, paper, minutes, votes or proceedings referred to in section 23, if the court or jury, as the case may be, is satisfied that such extract or abstract was published bona fide and without malice, judgment or verdict, as the case may be, shall be entered for the defendant or accused.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_25\", \"num\": \"25.\", \"text\": \"Powers of Speaker supplementary to powers under Constitution 25. The powers of the Speaker under this Act shall be supplementary to any powers conferred on the Speaker by the Constitution of the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_26\", \"num\": \"26.\", \"text\": \"Courts not to exercise jurisdiction over acts of Speaker and members 26. Neither the Speaker nor any member of the Parliament shall be subject to the jurisdiction of any court in respect of the exercise of any power conferred on or vested in the Speaker or member by or under this Act.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_27\", \"num\": \"27.\", \"text\": \"Civil process not to be served within precincts of Parliament 27. Notwithstanding anything provided by any other law to the contrary, no process issued by any court of the Islands in exercise of its civil jurisdiction shall be served or executed within the precincts of the Parliament while it is sitting or through the Speaker, the Clerk or any member of the Parliament. Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 30th day of January, 2024. Kim Bullings Clerk of Cabinet Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision) ENDNOTES ENDNOTES Table of Legislation history: SL # Act\/Law # Legislation Commencement Gazettes 56\/2020 Citation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020 3-Dec-2020 LG89\/2020\/s1 Cayman Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2020 SI 2020 No. 1283 3-Dec-2020 LG86\/2020\/s1 Cayman Islands Constituion Order 2009 (UKSI 1379\/2009) (as amended) (part) 6-Nov-2009 G14\/2009\/s1 Legislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges) Law (2015 Revision) 17-Jul-2015 GE53\/2015\/s18 19\/2012 Direction of Public Prosecutions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 2012 (part) 17-Sep-2012 GE90\/2012\/s17 Legislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges) Law (1999 Revision) 1-Feb-1999 G3\/1999\/s6 11\/1996 Legislative Assembly (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Law, 1996 25-Nov-1996 G24\/1996\/s12 Legislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges) Law (1996 Revision) 1-Apr-1996 G7\/1996\/s2 4\/1985 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(Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nPARLIAMENT (IMMUNITIES, POWERS AND\nPRIVILEGES) ACT\n(2024 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................... 5\n2.\nInterpretation ................................................................................................................................ 5\n3.\nImmunity from legal proceedings .................................................................................................. 6\n4.\nPrivileges ...................................................................................................................................... 6\n5.\nPower to order attendance of witness .......................................................................................... 6\n6.\nOrder to attend to be notified by summons .................................................................................. 7\n7.\nWitnesses may be examined on oath ........................................................................................... 7\n8.\nObjection to answer questions or to produce papers ................................................................... 7\n9.\nPrivileges of witnesses ................................................................................................................. 8\n10.\nCertificate issued to witnesses making full disclosure to be a bar to proceedings ....................... 8\n11.\nEvidence of proceedings in Parliament or committee not to be given without leave .................... 8\n12.\nCertain questions to be determined in accordance with usage of Parliament .............................. 9\n13.\nRight to enter Parliament .............................................................................................................. 9\n14.\nPower of appropriate authority to regulate admittance to Parliament .......................................... 9\n15.\nPower of Speaker to order withdrawal from Parliament ............................................................. 10\n16.\nFalse evidence ........................................................................................................................... 10\n17.\nOffences relating to admittance to Parliament............................................................................ 10\n18.\nOther offences ............................................................................................................................ 10\n19.\nDirector of Public Prosecutions to sanction prosecutions .......................................................... 11\n20.\nMembers not to receive compensation for promotion of or opposition to bills, etc. .................... 12\n21.\nJournals printed by order of the Parliament to be admitted as evidence ................................... 12\n22.\nPenalty for printing false copies of law, journals, etc. ................................................................. 12\n23.\nProtection of persons responsible for publications authorised by Parliament ............................ 12\n24.\nPublication of proceedings without malice.................................................................................. 13\n\nArrangement of Sections\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 4\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n25.\nPowers of Speaker supplementary to powers under Constitution ............................................. 13\n26.\nCourts not to exercise jurisdiction over acts of Speaker and members ..................................... 13\n27.\nCivil process not to be served within precincts of Parliament .................................................... 13\nENDNOTES\n15\nTable of Legislation history: ................................................................................................................. 15\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nPARLIAMENT (IMMUNITIES, POWERS AND\nPRIVILEGES) ACT\n(2024 Revision)\n\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Act may be cited as the Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act\n(2024 Revision).\n2.\nInterpretation\n2.\nIn this Act \u2014\n\u201cClerk\u201d means the Clerk of the Parliament;\n\u201ccommittee\u201d means any standing, select, special or other committee appointed\nby a resolution of the Parliament;\n\u201cjournals\u201d mean the minutes of the Parliament and the official record of the\nvotes or proceedings thereof;\n\u201cmeeting\u201d means the whole or any part of a session, irrespective of\nadjournments, at which the business set out in the Business Paper for the\nmeeting is disposed of;\n\u201cmember\u201d means a member of the Parliament;\n\u201cofficer of the Parliament\u201d means a person appointed to the staff of the\nParliament whether permanently or temporarily and includes the Clerk and the\nSergeant at Arms on duty within the precincts of the Parliament;\n\u201cParliament\u201d means the Parliament of the Islands;\n\nSection 3\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 6\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n\u201cprecincts of the Parliament\u201d means the entire building in which the\nParliament sits in session for the transaction of business, together with the car\npark, the front steps and all areas within the curtilage of the building;\n\u201csession\u201d means the meetings of the Parliament commencing when the\nParliament first meets after being constituted, or after its prorogation or\ndissolution at any time, and terminating when the Parliament is prorogued or\ndissolved without having been prorogued;\n\u201cSpeaker\u201d means the Speaker of the Parliament and includes the Deputy\nSpeaker and any other member of the Parliament when such other member is\npresiding at a meeting of the Parliament;\n\u201cStanding Orders\u201d means the Standing Orders of the Parliament referred to in\nsection 71 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [UKSI 2009 No.\n1379]; and\n\u201cstranger\u201d means any person other than a member or officer of the Parliament.\n3.\nImmunity from legal proceedings\n3.\nNo civil or criminal proceedings may be instituted against any member for words\nspoken before, or written in a report to, the Parliament of which that person is a\nmember or to a committee thereof or by reason of any matter or thing brought by that\nperson therein by petition, bill, resolution, motion or otherwise, nor shall any such\nproceedings be instituted against any person in respect of such words broadcast or rebroadcast by any broadcasting station licensed under the Information and\nCommunications Technology Authority Act (2011 Revision), or wholly owned by the\nGovernment of the Islands.\n4.\nPrivileges\n4.\nNo member shall be liable for arrest for any civil debt except a debt the contraction\nof which constitutes a criminal offence, whilst going to, attending at or returning from\na meeting of the Parliament or any committee.\n5.\nPower to order attendance of witness\n5.\n(1) The Parliament or any standing committee may, subject to sections 9 and 12,\norder any person to attend before such Parliament or committee and give\nevidence or produce any paper, book, record or document in that person\u2019s\npossession or control.\n(2) The powers conferred by subsection (1) on a standing committee may be\nexercised by any other committee which is specially authorised by a resolution\nof the Parliament by which such committee is appointed to exercise such powers\nin respect of any matter or question specified in the resolution.\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nSection 6\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 7\n\n6.\nOrder to attend to be notified by summons\n6.\n(1) Any order to attend, give evidence or produce documents before the Parliament\nor a committee shall be notified to the person required to attend or produce\ndocuments by a summons under the hand of the Clerk issued by the direction of\nthe Speaker.\n(2) In every summons under subsection (1) there shall be stated the time when and\nthe place where the person summoned is required to attend and the particular\ndocuments which that person is required to produce, and the summons shall be\nserved on the person mentioned therein either by delivering to that person a copy\nor by leaving a copy at that person\u2019s usual or last known place of abode in the\nIslands, with some adult person; and there shall be paid or tendered to the person\nso summoned, if that person does not reside within four miles of the place of\nattendance specified in the summons, such sum for that person\u2019s expenses as\nmay be prescribed by standing order or authorised by order of the Parliament.\n(3) A summons under this section may be served by a constable.\n7.\nWitnesses may be examined on oath\n7.\nThe Parliament or any committee may require that any facts, matters and things\nrelating to the subject of enquiry before such Parliament or committee be verified or\notherwise ascertained by the oral examination of witnesses, and may cause any such\nwitnesses to be examined upon oath, which the Speaker or the Chairperson of the\ncommittee, as the case may be, or other person specially appointed for that purpose,\nis hereby authorised to administer.\n8.\nObjection to answer questions or to produce papers\n8.\n(1) Where any person ordered to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book,\nrecord or document before the Parliament refuses to answer any question put to\nthat person or to produce any such paper, book, record or document on the\nground that it is of a private nature and does not affect the subject of enquiry,\nthe Speaker may excuse the answering of such question or the production of\nsuch paper, book, record or document, or may order the answering or production\nthereof.\n(2) Where any person ordered to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book,\nrecord or document before any committee refuses to answer any question put to\nthat person or to produce any such paper, book, record or document on the\nground that the same is of a private nature and does not affect the subject of\nenquiry, the Chairperson of the committee may report such refusal to the\nSpeaker with the reasons therefor; and the Speaker may thereupon excuse the\nanswering of such question or the production of such paper, book, record or\ndocument or order the answering or production thereof.\n\nSection 9\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n9.\nPrivileges of witnesses\n9.\n(1) Every person summoned to attend, give evidence or produce any paper, book,\nrecord or document before the Parliament or a committee is entitled, in respect\nof such evidence, the disclosure of any communication or the production of any\nsuch paper, book, record or document, to the same right or privilege as before\nthe Grand Court.\n(2) Except with the consent of the Governor, no public officer shall \u2014\n(a) produce before the Parliament or a committee any such paper, book, record\nor document; or\n(b) give before the Parliament or a committee evidence on any such matter,\nas relates to or forms part of the correspondence of any naval, military, air force\nor civil department or to any matter affecting the public service; nor shall\nsecondary evidence be received by or produced before the Parliament or a\ncommittee of the contents of any such paper, book, record or document.\n10.\nCertificate issued to witnesses making full disclosure to be a bar to\nproceedings\n10. (1) Every witness before the Parliament or a committee who answers fully and\nfaithfully any questions put to that person by the Parliament or such committee\nto its satisfaction is entitled to receive a certificate stating that that person was\nupon that person\u2019s examination so required to answer and did answer any such\nquestion.\n(2) Every certificate under subsection (1) shall, in the case of a witness before the\nParliament, be under the hand of the Speaker, and in the case of a witness before\nany committee be under the hand of the Chairperson thereof.\n(3) On production of such certificate to any court of law such court shall stay any\nproceedings, civil or criminal, except for a charge under section 103 or 104 of\nthe Penal Code (2024 Revision), against such witness by reasons of anything\nwhich the witness may have said in such evidence, and may, in its discretion,\naward to such witness such expenses as the witness may have incurred.\n(4) Except in proceedings under section 103 or 104 of the Penal Code (2024\nRevision) no statement made by any person in evidence given before the\nParliament or a committee shall be admissible in evidence against that person\nin any civil or criminal proceedings.\n11.\nEvidence of proceedings in Parliament or committee not to be given without\nleave\n11. (1) No evidence relating to \u2014\n(a) debates or proceedings in the Parliament; or\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nSection 12\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 9\n\n(b) the contents of the minutes of evidence taken or any document laid before\nthe Parliament or a committee or any proceedings of or before, or any\nexamination had before, the Parliament or any such committee,\nis admissible in any proceedings before a court or person authorised by law to\ntake evidence unless the court or such person is satisfied that permission has\nbeen granted by the Speaker for such evidence to be given.\n(2) The permission referred to in subsection (1) may be given during a recess or\nadjournment by the Speaker.\n12.\nCertain questions to be determined in accordance with usage of Parliament\n12. Where, at any time, any question arises in the Parliament or in committee in\nregard to \u2014\n(a) the right or power of the Parliament or a committee to hear, admit or\nreceive oral evidence;\n(b) the right or power of the Parliament or a committee to peruse or examine\nany paper, book, record or document or to summon, direct or call upon any\nperson to produce any paper, book, record or document before the\nParliament or committee; or\n(c) the right or privilege of any person (including a member of the Parliament\nor committee) to refuse to produce any paper, book, record or document\nor to lay any paper, book, record or document before the Parliament or\ncommittee,\nthat question shall, subject to this Act, and except insofar as express provision\nis made herein for the determination of that question, be determined in\naccordance with the usage and practice of the Commons House of Parliament\nof the United Kingdom.\n13.\nRight to enter Parliament\n13. No stranger shall be entitled, as of right, to enter or to remain within the precincts of\nthe Parliament.\n14.\nPower of appropriate authority to regulate admittance to Parliament\n14. (1) The Speaker is authorised to issue such orders as the Speaker deems necessary\nfor the regulation of the admittance of strangers to the precincts of the\nParliament.\n(2) Copies of orders made by the Speaker under subsection (1) shall be duly\nauthenticated by the Clerk and exhibited in a conspicuous position in the\nprecincts of the Parliament to which they relate; and such copies, when so\nauthenticated and exhibited, shall be sufficient notice to all persons affected\nthereby.\n\nSection 15\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 10\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n15.\nPower of Speaker to order withdrawal from Parliament\n15. The Speaker may, at any time, order any stranger to withdraw from the precincts of\nthe Parliament.\n16.\nFalse evidence\n16. Any person who before the Parliament or a committee intentionally gives a false\nanswer to a question material to the subject of enquiry put to that person during the\ncourse of any examination commits an offence \u2014\n(a) if such answer was given on oath, against section 104 of the Penal Code\n(2024 Revision); or\n(b) if such answer was given otherwise than on oath, against section 103 of\nthe Penal Code (2024 Revision).\n17.\nOffences relating to admittance to Parliament\n17. A person who \u2014\n(a) being a stranger, enters or attempts to enter the precincts of the Parliament\nin contravention of any order of the Speaker;\n(b) being a stranger, fails or refuses to withdraw from the precincts of the\nParliament when ordered to withdraw therefrom by the Speaker;\n(c) being a stranger, contravenes any rule made by the Speaker under the\nStanding Orders; or\n(d) attends any sitting of the Parliament as the representative of any journal\nafter the general permission granted under Standing Orders to the\nrepresentative or representatives of that journal has been revoked,\ncommits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars\nand to imprisonment for three months.\n18.\nOther offences\n18. (1) A person who \u2014\n(a) disobeys an order made by the Parliament or a committee for attendance\nor for production of papers, books, documents or records, unless such\nattendance or production is excused under section 8(1).\n(b) refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant\nquestion put by the Parliament or a committee unless such refusal is\nexcused under section 8(2).\n(c) offers to any member of the Parliament any bribe, fee, compensation, gift\nor reward in order to influence that person in that person\u2019s conduct as such\nmember, or for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any bill,\nresolution, matter, rules or things submitted to or intended to be submitted\nto the Parliament;\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nSection 19\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 11\n\n(d) assaults, obstructs or insults any member coming to or going from the\nprecincts of the Parliament, or endeavours to compel any member by force,\ninsult or menace to declare themselves in favour of or against any\nproposition or matter pending or expected to be brought before the\nParliament;\n(e) assaults, interferes with, resists or obstructs the Clerk while in the\nexecution of the Clerk\u2019s duty;\n(f)\ncreates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt\nthe proceedings of the Parliament while the Parliament is sitting; or\n(g) presents to the Parliament or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or\nfalsified document with intent to deceive the Parliament,\ncommits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine\nof one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months.\n(2) A person who \u2014\n(a) publishes any statement, whether in writing or otherwise, which falsely or\nscandalously defames the Parliament or any committee, or which reflects\non the character of the Speaker or the Chairperson of a committee in the\ndischarge of that person\u2019s duty as such;\n(b) publishes any writing containing a gross, wilful or scandalous\nmisrepresentation of the proceedings of the Parliament or a committee or\nof the speech of any member in the proceedings of the Parliament or a\ncommittee;\n(c) publishes any writing containing any false or scandalous libel on any\nmember touching that person\u2019s conduct as a member; or\n(d) publishes any report or statement purporting to be a report of the\nproceedings of the Parliament in any case where such proceedings have\nbeen conducted after exclusion of the public by order of the Parliament,\ncommits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine\nof eight hundred dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.\n19.\nDirector of Public Prosecutions to sanction prosecutions\n19. No prosecution for an offence under this Act shall be instituted except with the written\nsanction of the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n\nSection 20\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 12\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n20.\nMembers not to receive compensation for promotion of or opposition to bills,\netc.\n20. Any member who accepts or receives either directly or indirectly any fee,\ncompensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to\nany bill, resolution, matter or thing submitted or intended to be submitted for the\nconsideration of the Parliament commits an offence and is liable on conviction before\nthe Grand Court to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years,\nand in addition shall forfeit the amount of the value of the fee, compensation, gift or\nreward accepted by that member.\n21.\nJournals printed by order of the Parliament to be admitted as evidence\n21. Upon any enquiry touching the privileges, immunities and powers of the Parliament\nor of any member, any copy of the journals printed or purporting to be printed by any\nprinter authorised by the Cabinet shall be admitted as evidence of such journals in all\ncourts and places without any proof being given that such copy was so printed.\n22.\nPenalty for printing false copies of law, journals, etc.\n22. A person who prints or causes to be printed a copy of any law now or hereafter in\nforce, or a copy of any report, paper, minutes or votes and proceedings of the\nParliament as purporting to have been printed by any printer authorised by the\nGovernor or Speaker, and the same is not so printed, or tenders in evidence any such\ncopy as purporting to be so printed knowing that the same was not so printed, commits\nan offence and is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for three years.\n23.\nProtection of persons responsible for publications authorised by Parliament\n23. A person who being a defendant in any civil or criminal proceedings instituted for or\non account or in respect of the publication by such person or by that person\u2019s servant,\nby order or under the authority of the Parliament, of any reports, papers, minutes,\nvotes or proceedings, may, on giving to the plaintiff or prosecutor, as the case may\nbe, twenty-four hours\u2019 written notice of that person\u2019s intention, bring before the Court\nin which such civil or criminal proceedings are being held a certificate under the hand\nof the Speaker stating that the reports, papers, minutes, votes or proceedings in respect\nwhereof such proceedings have been instituted were published by such person or that\nperson\u2019s servant by order or under the authority of the Parliament together with an\naffidavit certifying such certificate, and such court shall thereupon immediately stay\nsuch proceedings and the same and every process issued therein shall be deemed to\nbe finally determined.\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nSection 24\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 13\n\n24.\nPublication of proceedings without malice\n24. In any civil or criminal proceedings instituted for publishing any extract from or\nabstract of any report, paper, minutes, votes or proceedings referred to in section 23,\nif the court or jury, as the case may be, is satisfied that such extract or abstract was\npublished bona fide and without malice, judgment or verdict, as the case may be, shall\nbe entered for the defendant or accused.\n25.\nPowers of Speaker supplementary to powers under Constitution\n25. The powers of the Speaker under this Act shall be supplementary to any powers\nconferred on the Speaker by the Constitution of the Islands.\n26.\nCourts not to exercise jurisdiction over acts of Speaker and members\n26. Neither the Speaker nor any member of the Parliament shall be subject to the\njurisdiction of any court in respect of the exercise of any power conferred on or vested\nin the Speaker or member by or under this Act.\n27.\nCivil process not to be served within precincts of Parliament\n27. Notwithstanding anything provided by any other law to the contrary, no process\nissued by any court of the Islands in exercise of its civil jurisdiction shall be served\nor executed within the precincts of the Parliament while it is sitting or through the\nSpeaker, the Clerk or any member of the Parliament.\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 30th\nday of January, 2024.\nKim Bullings\nClerk of Cabinet\n\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\nENDNOTES\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nPage 15\n\nENDNOTES\nTable of Legislation history:\nSL #\nAct\/Law #\nLegislation\nCommencement\nGazettes\n\n56\/2020\nCitation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020\n3-Dec-2020\nLG89\/2020\/s1\n\nCayman Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2020\nSI 2020 No. 1283\n3-Dec-2020\nLG86\/2020\/s1\n\nCayman Islands Constituion Order 2009 (UKSI 1379\/2009)\n(as amended) (part)\n6-Nov-2009\nG14\/2009\/s1\n\nLegislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges)\nLaw (2015 Revision)\n17-Jul-2015 GE53\/2015\/s18\n\n19\/2012\nDirection of Public Prosecutions (Miscellaneous\nAmendments) Law, 2012 (part)\n17-Sep-2012\nGE90\/2012\/s17\n\nLegislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges)\nLaw (1999 Revision)\n1-Feb-1999\nG3\/1999\/s6\n\n11\/1996\nLegislative Assembly (Immunities, Powers and Privileges)\nLaw, 1996\n25-Nov-1996\nG24\/1996\/s12\n\nLegislative Assembly (Immunity, Powers and Privileges)\nLaw (1996 Revision)\n1-Apr-1996\nG7\/1996\/s2\n\n4\/1985\nLegislative Assembly (Immunities, Powers and Privileges)\n(Amendment) Law, 1985\n15-Apr-1985\nG8\/1985\/S4\n\n35\/1965\nLegislative Assembly (Immunities Powers and Privileges)\n(Amendment) Law, 1965\n6-Aug-1962 GN 126 of 1965\n\n24\/1965\nLegislative Assembly (Immunities, Powers and Privileges)\nLaw, 1965\n6-Aug-1962\nGN  64 of 1965\n\nENDNOTES\nParliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act (2024 Revision)\n\nPage 16\nRevised as at 31st December, 2023\nc\n\n(Price $3.20)","akn_extracted_at":"2026-06-22 15:36:14.077395+00","cms_id":"1965-0024","law_type":"principal","year":"1965","number":"24","title":"Parliament (Immunities, Powers and Privileges) Act","status":"in_force"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"5641","expr_id":"582","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"1965-0024_2024 Revision.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1965\/1965-0024\/1965-0024_2024 Revision.akn.xml","content_md5":"465d769bf1fac8218f391d85f8e759c2","byte_size":"26732","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-22 15:36:14.510432+00"},{"file_id":"1163","expr_id":"582","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1965\/1965-0024\/1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/PRINCIPAL\/1965\/1965-0024\/1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"383ae13e2c8b07ce98ce704629b10c96","byte_size":"896890","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:36.478169+00"},{"file_id":"1164","expr_id":"582","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1965\/1965-0024\/1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1965\/1965-0024\/1965-0024_2024 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"383ae13e2c8b07ce98ce704629b10c96","byte_size":"896890","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:36.478169+00"}],"paragraph_count":19,"latest_history":null},"quality":{"expr_id":"582","doc_id":"582","quality_state":"needs_review","quality_score":"84","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise}","llm_categories":"{truncated_text,other}","repair_actions":"{collapse_duplicate_text,manual_review,reextract_full_text,strip_page_furniture}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"Sample ends abruptly mid\u2011definition; likely requires full text verification.","assessed_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:45.197553+00","updated_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:45.197553+00"}}