34.— (1) (a) Subject to subsection (3), the House may, at any time before it is given the final report, request the committee to give it interim reports in writing in accordance with rules and standing orders.

(b) The committee (not being a House) may, at any time before it gives the final report to the House, give the House interim reports in writing in accordance with rules and standing orders.

(2) Section 33(2) and (4) shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to an interim report as it applies to the final report.

(3) Where the committee is a House, the words “committee may, at any time before it prepares the final report, prepare” shall be deemed to be substituted for the words “House may, at any time before it is given the final report, request the committee to give it” in subsection (1)(a).