Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) The Minister must cause the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 14 sitting days of the House after receiving the report.
(2) If the Minister proposes to transmit the report to the Parliament on a day on which neither House of the Parliament is actually sitting, the Minister must—
(a) give a copy of the report to the clerk of each House of the Parliament; and
(b) publish the report on a Government Internet site as soon as practicable after giving it to the clerks.
(3) The clerk of each House must—
(a) notify each member of the House of the receipt of the report under subsection (2)(a) on the same day that the clerk receives that report; and
(b) make copies of the report available to each member of the House as soon as practicable after the report is received under subsection (2)(a); and
(c) cause the report to be laid before the House on the next sitting day of the House.
(4) A report that is given to the clerks under subsection (2)(a) is taken to have been published by order, or under the authority, of the Houses of Parliament.
(5) The publication of a report by the Minister under subsection (2)(b) 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 the publication of the report as if it were a report to which those sections applied and had been published by the Government Printer under the authority of Parliament.