Parliamentary Committees Act 1991

A Committee must, after inquiring into and considering any matter referred to it by or under this or any other Act, report on the matter to its appointing House or Houses.

A Committee's appointing House or Houses may, when referring a matter to the Committee, fix a period within which the Committee is required to present a final report to the House or Houses on that matter.

A Committee must in carrying out its functions—

give priority, so far as it is practicable to do so—

firstly, to the matters referred to it by this Act or by or under any other Act;

secondly, to the matters referred to it by its appointing House or

comply with any limitation of time fixed under subsection (2).

A Committee may, if it thinks fit, at any time prior to making a final report on a matter referred to it—

make one or more interim reports on the matter to its appointing

publish a document relating to the matter.

A Committee may include in a report a draft Bill to give effect to any recommendation of the Committee.

If requested to do so by a member of the Committee, a Committee must include in a report a minority report on behalf of that member.

If more than 14 days would elapse from the day on which a report of a Committee (whether a final report or interim report) is adopted by the

the Committee may present the report to the Presiding Officer or

the Presiding Officer or Officers may, after consultation with the

A report of a Committee or other document that is published under this section will be taken for the purposes of any other Act or law to be a report or paper of Parliament published under the authority of the Committee's appointing House or Houses.