22FSpecial rules relating to the Parliament

22F Special rules relating to the Parliament

Requirements relating to the Parliament that need not be complied with (1) A person or body need not comply with a requirement imposed by an applied law or an adopted law on the person or body to do either of the following: (a) give (however described) a thing to the Parliament, a committee of the Parliament or an officer or member of the Parliament; (b) act consistently (however described) with a resolution or recommendation of the Parliament. Failure to comply with the requirement does not affect the validity of any act.

Note 1: Applied laws or adopted laws may use various verbs to express requirements to give something to the Parliament, a committee of the Parliament, or an officer or member of the Parliament. Some examples of such verbs are giving, furnishing, laying before, presenting to, tabling, notifying, advising and providing.

Note 2: Applied laws or adopted laws may express in various ways a requirement for a person or body to act consistently with a resolution or recommendation of the Parliament. For example, applied laws or adopted laws may refer to a person or body doing something in accordance with a resolution of the Parliament, on the recommendation of the Parliament or on an address from the Parliament.

Acts valid despite absence of action relating to the Parliament (2) Despite an applied law or an adopted law providing for a thing to be done by or in relation to the Parliament: (a) before a function can be exercised by an authority other than the Parliament; or (b) in connection with the exercise of a function, by such an authority; the function may be exercised by the authority even though that thing has not been done, or is not done, by or in relation to the Parliament.

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