Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.
In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.
Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consists of two rods which can be drawn across the end of the benches to form the boundary of the House opposite the Speaker's chair. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth by Wilding & Laundy, p. 37.
Bar of the House, is a place inside the House of a Legislature where the persons who commit a breach of privilege or contempt of the House are summoned for administering admonition or reprimand. Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 139; Practice and Procedure of Parliament ' M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 261.
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