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Parliamentary Committees Amendment (Preventing Government Dominated Investigatory Committees) Bill 2022

Upper House — as recorded: Council - second readingAs recorded by the source: Council - second reading
Parliament
Parliament of Victoria
Introduced
20 Dec 2022
Latest stage
8 Feb 2023
Introduced by
Dr Samantha Ratnam
Stage detail
Council - second reading

What the bill says it does

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 to ensure that the membership and chairperson of Parliament's Joint Investigatory Committees is sufficiently independent of the government and executive of the day when carrying out their functions.

Quoted from: Purpose clause of the bill as introduced. Not written or edited by FOCUp.

Timeline

  1. First reading passedLegislative Council

    20 Dec 2022

  2. First reading: Statement of compatibility tabledLegislative Council

    8 Feb 2023 · Source

  3. Second reading movedLegislative Council

    8 Feb 2023 · Source

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Government function: Running of government, elections and integrity bodies

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    Source: Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria (legislation.vic.gov.au). Last checked by FOCUp 15 Sept 2026. Read via structured data endpoint. Category assigned by FOCUp's published rules (matched: parliament, parliamentary). About this source