The collective privileges include the right to:
- Publish reports, debates, and proceedings, and prohibit others from publishing them (freedom of press restored by 44th Amendment Act of 1978, except for secret sittings).
- Exclude strangers from proceedings and hold secret sittings.
- Make rules to regulate its own procedure and conduct of business, and adjudicate on such matters.
- Punish members and outsiders for breach of privileges or contempt (reprimand, admonition, imprisonment, suspension/expulsion).
- Receive immediate information of arrest, detention, conviction, imprisonment, and release of a member.
- Institute inquiries and order attendance of witnesses and production of papers/records.
- Prohibit courts from inquiring into proceedings of a House or its committees.
- Prohibit arrest or service of legal process within precincts of the House without presiding officer’s permission.