South Australian Consolidated Acts

YOUTH COURT ACT 1993 - SECT 19

19—Power to compel the giving of evidence

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

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

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

            (c)         refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to produce evidentiary material that the 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.