Parliament of Canada Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-1)

Marginal note:By-laws

• 52.5 (1) The Board may make by-laws

  • (a) respecting the calling of meetings of the Board and the conduct of business at those meetings;

  • (a.1) prescribing the circumstances in which a meeting of the Board shall be held in camera;

  • (b) governing the use by members of the House of Commons of funds, goods, services and premises made available to them for the carrying out of their parliamentary functions;

  • (c) prescribing the terms and conditions of the management of, and accounting for, by members of the House of Commons, of funds referred to in paragraph (b) and section 54; and

  • (d) respecting all such things as are necessary or incidental to the exercise of its powers and the carrying out of its functions.

• Marginal note:Unanimity

  (1.1) The Board may make a by-law under paragraph (1)(a.1) only on the unanimous vote of the members of the Board who are present at the meeting at which the vote is held.

• Marginal note:Speaker to table by-laws

  (2) The Speaker shall table before the House of Commons the by-laws made under this section on any of the first thirty days after the making thereof.

• Marginal note:Speaker to make by-laws available

  (3) When the House of Commons is not sitting, the Speaker shall cause the by-laws made under this section to be deposited with the Clerk of that House and such by-laws shall thereupon be deemed to have been tabled before the House of Commons.

• Marginal note:By-laws not statutory instruments

  (4) By-laws made under this section shall be deemed not to be statutory instruments for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act.