NATIONAL CRIMES COMMISSION ACT 1982 No. 138, 1982 - SECT 20 Power to summon witnesses and take evidence

NATIONAL CRIMES COMMISSION ACT 1982 No. 138, 1982 - SECT 20

20. (1) A member or an acting member may summon a person to appear before the
Commission at a hearing to give evidence and to produce such documents or
other things (if any) as are referred to in the summons.

(2) A summons under sub-section (1) requiring a person to appear before the
Commission to give evidence shall set out, as far as is reasonably
practicable, the general nature of the matters in relation to which the
Commission intends to question the person, but nothing in this sub-section
prevents the Commission from questioning the person in relation to any other
matter that the Commission may, in the proper performance of its functions,
investigate.

(3) The member or acting member presiding at a hearing before the Commission
may require a person appearing at the hearing to produce a document or other
thing.

(4) The Commission may, at a hearing, take evidence on oath or affirmation and
for that purpose-

   (a)  a member or acting member may require a person appearing at the
        hearing to give evidence either to take an oath or to make an
        affirmation in a form approved by the member or acting member
        presiding at the hearing; and

   (b)  a member or acting member, or a person who is an authorized person in
        relation to the Commission, may administer an oath or affirmation to a
        person so appearing at the hearing.

(5) In this section, a reference to a person who is an authorized person in
relation to the Commission is a reference to a person authorized in writing,
or a person included in a class of persons authorized in writing, for the
purposes of this section by the Chairman or a person acting as Chairman.