Laying documents before House of Parliament that is not sitting
206 Laying documents before House of Parliament that is not sitting
If a copy of a report of the kind mentioned in section 199 may be laid before each House of Parliament and a House of Parliament is not sitting, the Parliamentary Inspector may transmit a copy of the report to the Clerk of that House.
If section 203 requires the Parliamentary Inspector to cause a copy of a report to be laid before each House of Parliament, or dealt with under this section, within a period and —
at the commencement of the period, a House of Parliament is not sitting; and
the Parliamentary Inspector is of the opinion that the House will not sit during that period,
the Parliamentary Inspector is to transmit a copy of the report to the Clerk of that House.
A copy of a report transmitted to the Clerk of a House is to be regarded as having been laid before that House.
The laying of a copy of the text of a document that is regarded as having occurred under subsection (3) is to be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the Clerk received the copy.
[Section 206 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 28.]
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