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Power of Court to compel the giving of evidence

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Part 4Evidentiary powers

21 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.

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