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(3) The corporation may sell goods or provide services, and may make arrangements for the sale of goods or provision of services, to the public.
(4) The corporation may borrow sums in sterling by way of overdraft or otherwise for the purpose of meeting a temporary excess of expenditure over sums otherwise available to meet that expenditure.
(5) The corporation may borrow money only under sub-paragraph (4) and may borrow under that sub-paragraph only in accordance with the special or general approval of the Parliament.
Delegation
5. The corporation may delegate any of its functions to the Presiding Officer or the Clerk.
Proceedings and business
6.—(1) The validity of any act of the corporation shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members, or by any defect in the appointment, or qualification for membership, of any member.
(2) The corporation may determine its own procedure.
(3) The Presiding Officer shall preside at meetings of the corporation, but the corporation may appoint another of its members to preside if the office of Presiding Officer is vacant or the Presiding Officer is for any reason unable to act.
Crown status
7.—(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the corporation to be treated to any extent as a Crown body for the purposes of any enactment.
(2) In particular, the Order may for the purposes of any enactment provide―
- (a) for employment under the corporation to be treated as employment under the corporation as a Crown body,
- (b) for land held, used or managed by the corporation, or operations carried out by or on behalf of the corporation, to be treated (as the case may be) as land held, used or managed, or operations carried out by or on behalf of, the corporation as a Crown body.
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, “Crown body” means a body which is the servant or agent of the Crown, and includes a government department.
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Standing orders–further provision
Preservation of order
1.—(1) The standing orders shall include provision for preserving order in the proceedings of the Parliament, including provision for—
- (a) preventing conduct which would constitute a criminal offence or contempt of court, and
- (b) a sub judice rule.
(2) Such provision may provide for excluding a member of the Parliament from proceedings.
