Victorian Current Acts

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ACT 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Application of standing orders and practices of the Council and the Assembly  

   PART 2--ESTABLISHMENT, TERMS AND FUNCTIONSOF JOINT INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEES

           Division 1--Joint House Committees

   5.      Establishment of Joint House Committees  
   6.      Term of Joint House Committees  
   7.      Integrity and Oversight Committee  
   7A.     Disclosure of information by the Integrity and Oversight Committee  
   9A.     Electoral Matters Committee  
   14.     Public Accounts and Estimates Committee  
   15.     Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight Committee  
   17.     Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee  

           Division 2--Specific Purpose Committees

   18.     Specific Purpose Committees  
   19.     Term of Specific Purpose Committees  
   20.     Functions of Specific Purpose Committees  

   PART 3--CONSTITUTION AND PROCEDURE OF JOINT INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEES

           Division 1--Constitution

   21.     Membership of Joint Investigatory Committees  
   21A.    Membership of Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight Committee  
   22.     Election of chairperson and deputy chairperson  

           Division 2--Procedure

   23.     Quorum  
   24.     Voting by members  
   25.     Sittings  
   26.     Presence of members of Parliament and the public  
   27.     Public hearings  
   28.     Evidence  
   29.     Evidence may be considered by other Joint Investigatory Committees  
   30.     Engagement of research staff  

           Division 3--Sub-committees

   31.     Appointment and procedures  
   32.     Evidence and reporting  

   PART 4--REFERRALS, REPORTS AND RESPONSES

   33.     Referrals to Joint Investigatory Committees  
   34.     Interim reports, discussion papers, minority reports and draft Bills  
   35.     Reports before Parliament  
   36.     Government responses  
   37.     Submissions and reports of investigations to be published  
   37A.    Evidence given in private under section 28(3)  

   PART 5--THE HOUSE COMMITTEE

           Division 1--House Committee

   38.     Establishment of the House Committee  
   39.     Term of the House Committee  
   40.     Functions of the House Committee  
   41.     Membership of the House Committee  
   42.     Procedure of the House Committee  
   45.     Discussions on functioning of Joint Investigatory Committees  
   46.     Expenditure of Joint Investigatory Committees  
   50.     Application of parliamentary privilege  
   51.     Supreme Court—limitation of jurisdiction  
   52.     Regulations  

   PART 10--FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AMENDMENT (OFFICE OF THE VICTORIAN INFORMATION COMMISSIONER) ACT 2017

   69.     Functions relating to the Freedom of Information Commissioner  

   PART 11--INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES, OVERSIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE) ACT 2019

   70.     Definitions  
   71.     Transitional provisions  
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