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Chapter 2 - Parliamentary Privilege: immunities and powers of the Senate

Immunities of the houses

This chapter will now analyse the immunities of the Houses of the Parliament, the rationale of those immunities and the issues involved in the declaration of and changes to them which were made by the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 (here referred to as “the 1987 Act”).

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