Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If the Chief Municipal Inspector proposes transmission of a report under section 199AA when neither House of the Parliament is sitting, the Chief Municipal Inspector must—
(a) provide at least one business day's notice of the proposal to the clerk of each House; and
(b) provide the report to the clerk of each House on the day specified in the notice.
(2) The clerk of each House of the Parliament must—
(a) on the same day that the clerk receives a notice under subsection (1)(a), notify each member of the House of that notice; and
(b) as soon as practicable after the clerk receives a report under subsection (1)(b), make copies of the report available for each member of the House; and
(c) cause the report to be tabled in the House on the next sitting day of the House.
(3) A report provided to the clerk of a House under subsection (1)(b) is taken to have been published by order, or under the authority, of the Parliament.
(4) The publication of a report under this section is absolutely privileged and the provisions of sections 73 and 74 of the Constitution Act 1975 and any other enactment or rule of law relating to the publication of the proceedings of Parliament apply to and in relation to that publication as if—
(a) it were a document to which those sections applied; and
(b) it had been published by the Government Printer under the authority of the Parliament.
S. 199AAC inserted by No. 23/2024 s. 21.