4. Amendment of section 27 of the
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Section 27 of the principal enactment as amended by
Law, No. 5 of 1978 is hereby further amended as follows :—
enactment.
by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :—
“(1) Subject to the provisions’
of subsections (2) and (3), Parliament shall have power and jurisdiction to punish summarily any breach of the privileges of Parliament specified in Part B of the Schedule to this Act which is committed in respect of, or in relation to, Parliament by any member or any other person.” ;
by the repeal of subsection (1A) of that section ; and
by the substitution, for the marginal note to that section, of the following marginal note :-—
“Parliament’s jurisdiction over offences specified in Part B of Schedule”.