Section 8: Privileges of witnesses.

(1) Every person summoned to attend, to give evidence or to produce any paper, book, record or other document before a committee of a Legislative House shall be entitled in respect of such evidence or the disclosure of any communication or the production of any such paper, book, record or other document to the same privilege as before a court of law.
(2) Except with the consent of the President (or in the case of the records or affairs of State of a department of the Government of a State, the Governor of such State) no public officer shall be required-
(a) to produce before any committee of a Legislative House any paper, book, record or other document; or
(b)
to give before any committee of a Legislative House evidence on any matter,
if such paper, book, record or other document or such evidence is stated by the public officer to form part of or to relate to the unpublished official records of any naval, military, air force or civil department, or to relate to any affairs of State.