219. Evidence, report and proceedings treated as confidential. - (1) A Committee may direct that the whole or a part of the evidence or a summary thereof may be laid on the Table.

(2) No part of the evidence, oral or written, report or proceedings of a Committee which has not been laid on the Table of the Asembly shall be open to inspection by any one except under the authority of the Speaker.

(3) The evidence given before a Committee of the Assembly shall not be published by any member of the Committee or by any other person until it has been laid before the Assembly :

Provided that the Speaker may, in his discretion, direct that such evidence be confidentially made available to members before it is formally laid before the Assembly.