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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I will also highlight the immunity from legal proceedings of any kind. I think I have already alluded to that and it is in Clause 12. I will highlight Clause 13 which provides that staff members who work to facilitate the working of Parliament may not be compelled, for example, to produce any minutes that they have written in the course of their duties because, again, this is part of the privileges of Parliament. Clause 15 talks about the Committee on Powers and Privileges. This is a very important committee. You will recall that recently, we passed within our Standing Orders the Senate Business Committee (SBC) because it never used to exist. We had Rules and Business Committee (RBC) which was doubling up as Powers and Privileges Committee and at the same time as the House Business Committee. What we have done now under the new Standing Orders which this Senate passed a month ago is that we have the Senate Business Committee (SBC) as a separate committee from the Rules and Procedures Committee (RPC) which deals with issues of immunities and privileges. For the National Assembly, the Powers and Privileges Committee is composed of the Speaker and 14 other Members of the National Assembly. For the Senate, it is the Speaker and six other Members of the Senate. This Committee will help us to deal with some of the things that we have seen."
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