Lifecycle of Parliamentary Documents: Australia
- SO 37, regarding the disclosure of evidence and documents presented to a committee.
- SO 38, regarding the preparation of a committee report and its presentation to the Senate.
- SO 43, requiring that all proceedings of the Senate be recorded by the Clerk in the Journals of the Senate, be signed by the Clerk and, "except in so far as they relate to a meeting of the Senate in private session, be published." Furthermore, this standing order requires that business before the Senate must be placed on the Notice Paper, which must also be published, and provides that "[p]ublication of the record of debate in the Senate, known as Parliamentary Debates and Hansard, is authorised by this standing order."
- SO 44, providing that "[t]he custody of the Journals, records and all documents laid before the Senate shall be in the Clerk, and they shall not be taken from the chamber or Senate offices without the permission of the Senate."
- SO 69(4), requiring that all petitions received be printed in Hansard.
- SO 165, providing for the Senate to order the production and tabling of documents by a minister, and setting out the methods for tabling documents that are presented pursuant to statute, by the President of the Senate, or by a minister.
- SO 167, providing that "[t]he publication of each document laid on the table of the Senate is authorised by this standing order."
In addition, various procedural orders and resolutions of the Senate relate to the presentation and publication of documents, including a resolution requiring that government responses to committee reports be tabled in the chamber within a particular period.[1] There are also orders regarding
- the disclosure of minority or dissenting reports of a committee, and the unauthorized disclosure of committee proceedings, documents, or evidence;[2]
- requirements for various agency and ministerial documents and information to be tabled;[3]
- a requirement for the Leader of the Government in the Senate to table a list of all orders for the production of documents made during the current Parliament that have not been fully complied with, together with information regarding such noncompliance;[4]
- the types of documents that are to be made Parliamentary Papers upon their presentation to the Senate;[5]
- ↑ Senate Order 44, Committee Reports - Government Responses (14 March 1973, J.51, amended 24 August 1994 J.2054), https://perma.cc/4CQ2-2AGD.
- ↑ Senate Procedural Orders of Continuing Effect, Order 2, Disclosure of Minority or Dissenting Reports (22 November 1995, J.4198), https://perma.cc/93ZW-2CKT.
- ↑ Senate Procedural Orders of Continuing Effect, Orders for Documents, https://perma.cc/JDD8-6TU7.
- ↑ Id. Order 23, Report of Outstanding Orders for Documents (7 December 2017, J.2534).
- ↑ Senate Procedural Orders of Continuing Effect, Order 24A, Publications Committee Inclusion of Documents in Parliamentary Papers Series (8 February 2018, J.2648), https://perma.cc/U6WC-8KVM.
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