ABSTRACT
In the last 20 years, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has organized six study groups of members of Commonwealth Parliaments to discuss various topics of interest and importance and in most cases, reports or books have been the outcome of these study groups. Topics covered by these study groups are: Parliament and Public Finance; Parliament and Science Policy; the Role of Second Chambers; the Security of Small States; Electoral Law and Practice; and Conflict of Interest Legislation. In 1992, it was agreed by a CPA Working Party that these study group reports were valuable to parliamentarians as they seek to improve the functioning of their own Parliaments.
