Legislative Council in Brief

As set out in RoP, the Clerk to the Legislative Council is responsible for the following duties:

• advising the President of the Legislative Council (“the President”) on all matters relating to the procedure of the Legislative Council;
• keeping the minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Council and of committees of the whole Council;
• preparing from day to day a Council Agenda Item Book showing all future business of which notice has been given;
• preparing for each meeting an Agenda of the Council showing the business for that meeting under the directions of the President;
• the custody of votes, records, bills and other documents laid before the Legislative Council;
• conducting the review within 25 years of the existence of the document or record as to whether access should be made available at an earlier time, and denying access to a document or record in accordance with any guidelines set by the Committee on Access to the Legislature’s Documents and Records;
• production of the Official Record of all proceedings in the Legislative Council and in the committee of the whole Council under the directions of the President; and
• providing every committee and subcommittee of the Legislative Council with a clerk.