THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
SECRET SESSION YESTERDAY LONDON, Dec. 12. The secret session of the House of Commons, which will be held to-mor-row, raised a point of parliamentary privilege when a Liberal member, Mr Dingle Foot, asked the Speaker 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 breach of privilege. In reply, the Speaker cited authorities, and said a member who so acted would be wilfully disobeying the order of the House, thereby committing a gross breach of privilege, rendering himself liable to such penalties as were within the power of the House to inflict by reprimand, commitment to prison, or, in extreme cases, expulsion from the House. An Order-in-Council has been published making it “unlawful for any person, any newspaper, etc., to publish any report, or purport to describe the proceedings of the secret session of Parliament.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23991, 14 December 1939, Page 9
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