IN STRICT SECRECY
Special Sitting Of Commons LONDON, December 12. Au Order-in-Council makes it “unlawful for any person, any newspaper, etc., to publish any report of or purport to describe proceedings at the secret session of Parliament.” The secret session which ■ is being held tomorrow has raised a point of parliamentary privilege (states Official Wireless). A Liberal 'member asked the .Speaker today whether, it was a fact that any member who repeated outside, even in private conversation, anything said in the House during the secret session would be guilty of a bread) of privilege. In reply, after citing authorities, the Speaker said that a member who so acted would be wilfully disobeying the order of the House and thereby committing a gross breach of privilege, rendering himself liable to such penalties ns were within the power of the House to inflict by reprimand, commitment to prison, or, in extreme cases, expulson from the House.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 69, 14 December 1939, Page 9
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154IN STRICT SECRECY Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 69, 14 December 1939, Page 9
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