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PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION ACT 1998 No. 14, 1998 - SECT 49
Summons to person to attend hearing
(1) The Chair may summon a person, in writing, to appear at a hearing to give
evidence and to produce documents specified in the summons.
(2) A person served with a summons to appear at a hearing must not
intentionally:
(a) fail to attend as required by the summons; or
(b) fail to attend from day to day unless excused, or released from
further attendance, by the Chair.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.
Note: This penalty is a maximum penalty (section 4D, Crimes Act 1914
). A court may impose an appropriate fine instead of or as well as
imprisonment (subsection 4B(2), Crimes Act 1914 ). If a body corporate
is convicted of the offence, a court may impose a fine not more than 5
times the maximum fine that the court could impose on an individual
for the same offence (subsection 4B(3), Crimes Act 1914 ). Penalty
units are defined in section 4AA of the Crimes Act 1914 .
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