Section 104: Privileges of witnesses.

(1) Every person summoned to attend to give evidence or to produce any paper, book, record or other document before Parliament shall be entitled, in respect of his evidence, or the production of such document, to the same privileges as if he were appearing before a Court. (2) No public officer shall be required to produce before Parliament any document if the Speaker certifies that— a. the document belongs to a class of documents which will be injurious to the public interest or prejudicial to the security of the State to produce; or b. disclosure of the contents thereof will be injurious to the public interest or prejudicial to the security of the State. (3) Where there is a doubt as to whether any document as is referred to in subsection (2) is injurious to the public interest or prejudicial to the security of the State, the Speaker shall refer the matter to the Supreme Court to determine whether the production or the disclosure of the contents of any such document would be injurious to the public interest or 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, not being proceedings for perjury brought under the criminal law. P ART V — EXERCISE OF LEGISLATIVE POWER