A-23.1 - Act respecting the National Assembly

Section 55 Disposition versions

1983-02-09

55. No person may breach the privileges of the Assembly. The following acts, in particular, constitute breaches of the privileges of the Assembly:

(1)  refusing to comply with an order of the Assembly, a committee or a subcommittee;

(2)  giving false or incomplete testimony before the Assembly, a committee or a subcommittee;

(3)  presenting a false document to the Assembly, a committee or a subcommittee with intent to deceive;

(4)  forging, falsifying or altering, with intent to deceive, any document of the Assembly, a committee or a subcommittee or any document tabled or presented before it;

(5)  creating a disturbance liable to disrupt the course of parliamentary proceedings;

(6)  using or threatening to use force or using undue pressure to have a sitting cancelled or suspended;

(7)  assaulting, interfering with, bullying or threatening Members of the Assembly in the carrying out of their parliamentary duties or members of the personnel of the Assembly in the carrying out of their parliamentary duties;

(8)  defaming a Member of the Assembly or using abusive language about him;

(9)  bribing or attempting to bribe a Member of the Assembly or a member of the personnel of the Assembly;

(10)  attempting to influence the vote, opinion, judgment or action of a Member by means of deceit, threats or undue pressure;

(11)  suborning or attempting to suborn or threatening a person in regard to any evidence to be given by him before the Assembly, a committee or a subcommittee;

(12)  instituting an action with malicious intent against a Member;

(13)  performing an act contrary to the parliamentary immunity conferred on a Member.

1982, c. 62, s. 55.