Section 11
of Legislative Assembly Privileges Immunities And Powers Enactment 1963
Section 11
(1)
Every person summoned to attend to give evidence or to produce any paper, book, record or document before the Assembly shall be entitled, in respect of such evidence or the disclosure of any communication or such production, to the same rights and privileges in respect thereof as he would have before a court.
(2)
No public officer shall ―
(a)
produce before the Assembly or any committee any paper, book, record or document; or
(b)
give before the Assembly or any committee any evidence, which relates to the correspondence of any naval, military, air force or civil department or to any matter affecting the public service, except with the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in the case of a naval, military or air force department or a civil department of the Federal
Government or of the Chief Minister in the case of a department of the Government of the
State or of any of the other States of Malaysia; nor shall secondary evidence be received by
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or produced before the Assembly or any committee of the contents of any such paper, book, record or document.
Certificate to be issued to witnesses.