1976 Ed.]
Commissions of Inquiry
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(iii) refuses, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, to answer any question put to him by an inspector so appointed with respect to the affairs of such body or any other body the books and documents of which the inspector has been appointed to inspect; (Added, 49 of 1976, s. 6)
(d) wilfully interrupts the proceedings of the Commission or otherwise misbehaves during any hearing of the Commission;
(e) having been summoned to attend, leaves the place in which a Commission is being held without the permission of the Commission,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(2) Any person who-
(a) wilfully hinders or deters any person from attending, giving evidence or producing any article or document;
(b) threatens, insults or causes any loss to be suffered by any person who has attended before the Commission, on account of such attendance;
(c) threatens, insults or causes a loss to be suffered by any Commissioner at any time on account of the performance of his duties as a Commissioner;
(d) publishes or otherwise discloses any material which the Commission had prohibited him from publishing or disclosing;
(e) publishes or otherwise discloses any material received by the Commission in camera,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction upon indictment to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(3) It shall be a good defence in the case of a prosecution under subsection (2)(e) for the person charged to prove to the satisfaction of the court that he did not know nor had any reason for knowing that the material published or disclosed had been received by the Commission in camera.
9. (1) The Commission may, if so empowered under section 3, deal summarily as a contempt with any offence specified in section 8 which is committed in its presence, and may impose the sentence prescribed by that section.
(2) In the case of contempts not committed in the presence of the Commission, it may, if so empowered under section 3, summon the offender to appear before it at the time and place specified in the summons, there to show cause why the offender should not be sentenced for the contempt, and may impose the sentence prescribed by section 8.
Contempts dealt with by Commission.