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SPECIAL SESSION BRITISH PARLIAMENT RULING BY SPEAKER POSSIBLE PENALTIES DISOBEYING ORDER (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 13. 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. An Order-in-Council has been published making it “unlawful for any person, or any newspaper, etc., to publish any report or purport to describe the proceedings of the secret session of Parliament,” which is being held to-morrow. A point of Parliamentary privilege was raised when a Liberal member asked the Speaker whether it was a fact that any member who repeated outside, even in private conversation, anything said in the House during the secret session would be guilty of a breach of privilege. In a reply citing authorities, the Speaker said that a member who so acted would be wilfully disobeying an order of the House, thereby committing a gross breach of privilege and rendering himself liable to such penalties as it was within the power of the House to inflict by reprimand, commitment to prison, or, n extreme cases, expulsion from the House.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 7
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