Section 73: Privileges of witness.

(1) Every person summoned to attend or 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 the said document, as the case may be, 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 i. the document belongs to a class of documents which is injurious to the public interest to produce, or ii. disclosure of the contents thereof will be injurious to the public interest. (3) Where there is a doubt as to whether any document as is referred to in the immediately preceding subsection 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 civil or criminal proceedings out of Parliament, not being proceedings for perjury brought under the criminal law. P ART V—SUMMONING, PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION Sessions of