A Bill to provide for corporate status of and for certain privileges and immunities to be accorded to the international inter-parliamentary organisation of national and sub-national legislatures of Commonwealth countries known as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and to its Secretary-General; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
29 April 2022
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This bill would give the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (an international group made up of parliaments from Commonwealth countries) a formal corporate status and set out certain privileges and immunities for the Association and its Secretary-General. It is intended to help the CPA operate more smoothly across borders and carry out its duties as an international inter-parliamentary organisation, with provisions described as “connected purposes.”
The bill is in the Commons and has completed its first and second readings (introduced in February 2022 and given second reading in May 2022). Further stages are not listed here.
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The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
