DISTRICT COURT ACT 1991 - SECT 26

DISTRICT COURT ACT 1991 - SECT 26

26—Power of Court to compel the giving of evidence

        (1)         A person who is called to give evidence or to produce evidentiary material before a Court and—

            (a)         refuses or fails to make an oath or affirmation when required to do so by the Court;

            (b)         refuses or fails to give evidence on a subject on which that person is compellable to give evidence;

            (c)         refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to produce evidentiary material that that person is required by the Court to produce,

commits a contempt of the Court.

        (2)         This section applies whether the person was summoned before the Court, brought before the Court on a warrant, or came to the Court of his or her own volition.