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Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary security - Limits on powers and duties of parliamentary security officers

190: Powers and duties may not be exercised where parliamentary meeting in progress unless person presiding directs exercise

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"Parliamentary security officers can't act during meetings unless the person in charge says so"

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You are a parliamentary security officer. You cannot use your powers or do your duties in a room where a parliamentary meeting is happening. You can only do this if the person in charge of the meeting tells you to. The person in charge can tell you to use your powers or do your duties in a specific way or in general.

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Part 7Parliamentary security
Limits on powers and duties of parliamentary security officers

190Powers and duties may not be exercised where parliamentary meeting in progress unless person presiding directs exercise

  1. A parliamentary security officer may not exercise or perform any of the powers or duties in subpart 2 or 3 in a room where a parliamentary meeting is in progress.

  2. However, a person presiding over a parliamentary meeting may direct a parliamentary security officer, in specific or general language, to exercise or perform any of those powers or duties in relation to a person who is in a room where the parliamentary meeting is in progress.

  3. The fact that the person presiding over a parliamentary meeting directs the exercise or performance of a power or duty constitutes reasonable grounds for—

  4. that person’s direction; and
    1. a parliamentary security officer’s exercise or performance of the power or duty.

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