LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 18
LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 18
18 . Witnesses and evidence, powers to summon etc.
(1) The licensing
authority may —
(a) by
summons require any person to attend before the licensing authority at a time
and place specified in the summons for the purpose of giving evidence relevant
to any application or matter before the licensing authority; and
(b) by
summons require the production of records; and
(c)
inspect records produced before it, and take copies of, or extracts from,
them; and
(d)
require any person who is a party to or concerned in the proceedings to take
an oath or affirmation or provide a statutory declaration verifying evidence
given, or to be given, to the licensing authority; and
(e)
require any person appearing before it to answer a question put to that person
by the licensing authority or by some other person appearing before the
licensing authority.
(2) A summons under
subsection (1) may be issued, whether on the application of any party to
proceedings before the licensing authority or on its own motion, on behalf of
the licensing authority —
(a)
where the matter is to be determined by the Commission, by a member; or
(b)
where the matter is to be determined by the Director, by the Director or a
person authorised by the Director under section 15.
(3) Any person who
—
(a)
being an officer of the licensing authority, is for the time being so
authorised by the chairperson or the Director; or
(b) is a
Justice of the Peace; or
(c) is a
person prescribed, by rules of the Commission or the regulations, for the
purposes of this subsection,
may take and
administer oaths and affirmations in, or for the purposes of, any application
or matter that is being or is to be determined by the licensing authority.
[Section 18 amended: No. 12 of 1998 s. 10(6) and
(7); No. 73 of 2006 s. 14 and 106.]