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Chapter 26 Tabling Of Documents: 164 Order For The Production Of Documents



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164 Order for the production of documents

(1) Documents may be ordered to be laid on the table, and the Clerk shall communicate to the Leader of the Government in the Senate all orders for documents made by the Senate.

(2) When returned the documents shall be laid on the table by the Clerk.

(3) If a minister does not comply with an order for the production of documents, directed to the minister, within 30 days after the date specified for compliance with the order, and does not, within that period, provide to the Senate an explanation of why the order has not been complied with which the Senate resolves is satisfactory:

(a) at the conclusion of question time on each and any day after that period, a senator may ask the relevant minister for such an explanati on; and

(b) the senator may, at the conclusion of the explanation, move without notice--That the Senate take note of the explanation; or

(c) in the event that the minister does not provide an explanation, the senator may, without notice, move a motion in relation to the minister’s failure to provide either an answer or an explanation.

(amended 9 November 2005)