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
The bill would give the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), an international body of Commonwealth parliaments, formal legal status as a corporate entity and set out the privileges and immunities it and its Secretary-General should have to carry out their international work. It also covers related legal arrangements to support these provisions.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons; if it passes, it would move to committee stage for detailed examination.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
