Artikel 71: Parliamentary immunity
Members of the States General, Ministers, State Secretaries and other persons taking part in deliberations may not be prosecuted or otherwise held liable in law for anything they say during the sittings of the States General or of its committees or for anything they submit to them in writing.
Explanation
Please note: Only the Dutch-language version of the Constitution has legal effect.
Members of Parliament, ministers, and state secretaries cannot be prosecuted criminally and are not civilly liable for what they have said in the House or communicated to the House in writing.
This 'immunity' applies to both plenary and committee meetings, but does not apply when the meeting is closed. In 1939, Roman Catholic Member of Parliament Ruyter was prosecuted because, after the closure of a (tumultuous) parliamentary session, he had called the NSB member Rost van Tonningen a traitor.