New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsFor the purposes of this Act the Committee shall have the following powers, that is to say:
(a) they may, by themselves or by any person appointed by them to prosecute an inquiry, enter and inspect any land, building, place, or material, the entry or inspection of which appears to them requisite, upon the prescribed notice being given to the owners or occupiers of such land, building, place, or material,
(b) they may require, by summons under the hand of the Chair or Deputy Chair, the attendance of all such persons as they may think fit to call before them and examine, and may require answers or returns to such inquiries as they think fit to make,
(c) they may, in the prescribed manner, require and compel the production of all books, maps, plans, papers, and documents relating to the matters before them,
(d) they may, by their Chair or Deputy Chair, examine witnesses on oath; or where a witness, if examined before a superior court of record, would be permitted to make a solemn declaration, or to give evidence in any other way than upon oath, then by such declaration or otherwise as the case may be.