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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ACT 2003

Table of Provisions

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 FUNCTIONSOF JOINT INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEES

Division 1--Joint House Committees

  • 5 Establishment of Joint House Committees  
  • 6 Term of Joint House Committees  
  • 7 Integrity and Oversight Committee  
  • 7A Disclosure of information by the Integrity and Oversight Committee  
  • 9A Electoral Matters Committee  
  • 14 Public Accounts and Estimates Committee  
  • 15 Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight 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  
  • 21A Membership of Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight Committee  
  • 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  
  • 37A Evidence given in private under section 28(3)  

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  
  • 45 Discussions on functioning of Joint Investigatory Committees  
  • 46 Expenditure of Joint Investigatory Committees  
  • 50 Application of parliamentary privilege  
  • 51 Supreme Court—limitation of jurisdiction  
  • 52 Regulations  

PART 10--FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AMENDMENT (OFFICE OF THE VICTORIAN INFORMATION COMMISSIONER) ACT 2017

  • 69 Functions relating to the Freedom of Information Commissioner  
PART 11--INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES, OVERSIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE) ACT 2019

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