Immunities, taking various forms, have arisen to protect legislators from certain criminal or civil proceedings. Again, their origins lay in the need to protect legislators from political persecuton, and later from harassment which indirectly might prevent a legislator from performing his duties. Such immunities might once have taken the form of an absolute immunity from judicial process, but this has given way to procedural protections which require, for example, in certain countries that criminal proceedings against legislators be brought only in higher courts, or that such proceedings be subject to certain delays. The trend is to move away from granting any immunity from civil or criminal liability, even of a temporary nature, to members of the Executive or of the Legislature, Our Constitution reflects this trend. The remnants of this form granting any immmunity are still in existence in the Act.(see Section 7 of the Act)