Chapter 16 - Committees
Library Committee
The Library Committee is established by standing order 20 as follows:
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A Library Committee,
consisting of the President and 6 senators, shall be appointed at the
commencement of each Parliament, with power to act during recess, and to confer
and sit as a joint committee with a similar committee of the House of
Representatives.
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The Committee may consider
any matter relating to the provision of library services to senators.
The President is the chair of the committee.
The committee invariably sits as a joint committee. Having no powers of
inquiry or report, the committee generally functions as a forum in which to
raise and consider matters of relevance to the operations and administration of
the Parliamentary Library. It is an advisory committee and the Presiding
Officers, with joint responsibility for the Library, are not bound to follow
the advice of the committee.
In 2008 a joint resolution of the two Houses specified the joint
committee’s advisory role and detailed provisions for its composition and
proceedings (13/2/2008, J.121-2, 14/2/2008, J.156).
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