Victorian Consolidated Legislation

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ACT 2003

No. 110 of 2003
Version incorporating amendments as at 21 March 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Application of standing orders and practices of the Council and the Assembly

   PART 2-ESTABLISHMENT, TERMS AND FUNCTIONS OF JOINT INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEES

           Division 1-Joint House Committees

   5.      Establishment of Joint House Committees
   6.      Term of Joint House Committees
   7.      Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee
   8.      Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee
   9.      Education and Training Committee
   9A.     Electoral Matters Committee
   10.     Environment and Natural Resources Committee
   11.     Family and Community Development Committee
   12.     Law Reform Committee
   13.     Outer Suburban/Interface Services and Development Committee
   14.     Public Accounts and Estimates Committee
   15.     Road Safety Committee
   16.     Rural and Regional Committee
   17.     Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee

           Division 2-Specific Purpose Committees

   18.     Specific Purpose Committees
   19.     Term of Specific Purpose Committees
   20.     Functions of Specific Purpose Committees

   PART 3-CONSTITUTION AND PROCEDURE OF JOINT INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEES

           Division 1-Constitution

   21.     Membership of Joint Investigatory Committees
   22.     Election of chairperson and deputy chairperson

           Division 2-Procedure

   23.     Quorum
   24.     Voting by members
   25.     Sittings
   26.     Presence of members of Parliament and the public
   27.     Public hearings
   28.     Evidence
   29.     Evidence may be considered by other Joint Investigatory Committees
   30.     Engagement of research staff

           Division 3-Sub-committees

   31.     Appointment and procedures
   32.     Evidence and reporting

   PART 4-REFERRALS, REPORTS AND RESPONSES

   33.     Referrals to Joint Investigatory Committees
   34.     Interim reports, discussion papers, minority reports and draft Bills
   35.     Reports before Parliament
   36.     Government responses
   37.     Submissions and reports of investigations to be published

   PART 5-THE HOUSE COMMITTEE

           Division 1-House Committee

   38.     Establishment of the House Committee
   39.     Term of the House Committee
   40.     Functions of the House Committee
   41.     Membership of the House Committee
   42.     Procedure of the House Committee

           Division 2-Repealed

           43, 44. Repealed

   PART 6-GENERAL

   45.     Discussions on functioning of Joint Investigatory Committees
   46.     Expenditure of Joint Investigatory Committees
   47.     Reimbursements to members of certain committees
   48.     Certification of payments to members of committees
   49.     Status of payments as regards the Constitution Act 1975.
   50.     Immunity from judicial review
   51.     Supreme Court-limitation of jurisdiction
   52.     Regulations

   PART 7-Repealed

           53-64. Repealed

   PART 8-TRANSITIONAL

   65.     Transitional provision-successor committees
   66.     Transitional provision-2007 Act
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details