32BPresentation of non-compliance report to Parliament—Privileges Committee

32B Presentation of non-compliance report to Parliament—Privileges Committee

(1) Subject to subsection (2), if a Privileges Committee receives a non-compliance report, the Privileges Committee must—

(b) in the case that the report includes sanctions that the Commission recommends be imposed on the person who is the subject of the report—

(i) invite the person to provide within 30 days a written response regarding the sanctions recommended; and

(ii) consider any response provided within 30 days by the person; and

(c) prepare and cause to be transmitted to its House, no later than 10 sitting days after the period referred to in paragraph (b), a report that contains—

(i) the non-compliance report; and

(iii) an explanation for any differences between the recommendations of the Commission and the recommendations of the Privileges Committee.

(2) As soon as practicable after a Privileges Committee receives a non-compliance report, a Member of the Privileges Committee who has a direct or indirect interest in the subject-matter of the report, being an interest that could conflict with the performance of their duties as a Member of the Privileges Committee in considering the report, must—

(a) recuse themselves from the consideration of the report until the Privileges Committee has caused a report to be transmitted to its House in accordance with subsection (l)(c); or

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a direct or indirect interest in the subject-matter of a non‑compliance report does not include being a member of the same political party as the person who is the subject of the report.

(4) A Privileges Committee must not reconsider or review any finding of the Commission in a non‑compliance report.