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118 IMMUNITY FROM WITNESS SUMMONS
(1)
Neither the Speaker, nor a member of, nor the Clerk to, Parliament shall be compelled, while
attending Parliament to appear as a witness in any court or place out of Parliament.
(2)
The certificate of the Speaker that a member or the Clerk is attending the proceedings of Parliament
is conclusive evidence of attendance at Parliament.
119 IMMUNITY FROM SERVICE AS JUROR
Neither the Speaker, nor a member of, nor the Clerk to, Parliament shall be required to serve on a
jury in any court or place out of Parliament.
120 IMMUNITY FOR PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a person shall not be under any civil or criminal liability
in respect of the publication of (a) the text or a summary of any report, papers, minutes, votes and proceedings of Parliament; or
(b) a contemporaneous report of the proceedings of Parliament unless it is shown that the
publication was effected maliciously or otherwise without good faith.
121 PRIVILEGES OF WITNESSES
(1)
A person summoned to attend to give evidence or to produce a paper, book, record or other
document before Parliament, shall be entitled, in respect of his evidence, or the production of the
document, as the case may be, to the same privileges as if he were appearing before a court.
(2)
A public officer shall not be required to produce before Parliament a document where—
(a) the Speaker certifies—
(i) that the document belongs to a class of documents, the production of which is injurious to the
public interest; or
(ii) that disclosure of the contents of the document will be injurious to the public interest; or
(b) the National Security Council certifies—
(i) that the document belongs to a class of documents, the production of which is prejudicial to the
security of the State; or
(ii) that disclosure of the contents of the document will be prejudicial to the security of the State.
(3)
Where there is a doubt as to the nature of a document such as is referred to in clause (2) of this
article, the Speaker or the National Security Council, as the case may be, shall refer the matter to the
Supreme Court for determination whether the production, or the disclosure of the, contents, of the
document would be injurious to the public interest or, as the case may be, prejudicial to the security
of the State.
(4)
An answer by a person to a question put by Parliament shall not be admissible in evidence against him
in any civil or criminal proceedings out of Parliament, except proceedings for perjury brought under
the criminal law.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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