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
5 September 2023
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The bill would give the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) a legal identity as a corporate body and provide its Secretary-General with certain privileges and immunities. This status aims to help the CPA operate across Commonwealth parliaments and carry out its international parliamentary work more effectively.
The bill has had its first and second readings in the Commons and is currently at the second-reading stage. If it progresses, it would move to committee stage, then further readings before possible passage to the Lords.
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The next stage for this Bill, Second reading, is scheduled to take place on Friday 24 November 2023.
The House is currently not expected to sit on this day and the Bill is therefore not expected to be taken.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
