WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 84B

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 84B

84B—Power to compel the giving of evidence

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

            (a)         refuses or fails to make an oath or affirmation when required to do so by the Tribunal; 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 that person is required by the Tribunal to produce,

commits a contempt of the Tribunal.

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