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(c) require any person to produce at any reasonable time any records, books of account or other documents which the tribunal officer may reasonably consider to be relevant to the claim, and to examine and make copies of such records, books of account or other documents.
(5) A person who is interviewed by a tribunal officer shall not be compelled to make a statement or to answer any question put to him but the tribunal officer shall record in his summary of facts if any person has refused to be interviewed or to answer any question put to him.
(6) A person who makes a statement to a tribunal officer shall be entitled to read such statement or, if he is illiterate or if the statement is written in a language which he does not understand, to have the statement read out to him in a language which he does understand and to correct any errors therein.
(7) A statement made to a tribunal officer may be admitted as evidence of all matters therein if it is produced before the tribunal by the tribunal officer who recorded it and contains a statement by him that subsection (6) was complied with at the time when the statement was recorded.
15. Conciliation certificate to be filed
(1) The tribunal shall not hear a claim until a certificate in the prescribed form signed by a tribunal officer or an authorized officer is filed or produced to the effect that-
(a) one or more of the parties has refused to take part in conciliation;
(b) conciliation has been attempted but no settlement has been reached;
(c) conciliation is unlikely to result in a settlement being reached; or (d) conciliation may prejudice the interests of a party.
(2) A certificate under subsection (1) shall be filed with or produced to the tribunal not later than 24 hours before the date fixed for the hearing of the claim.
(3) During the hearing of a claim the tribunal may, subject to sections 16 and 30, adjourn the claim and notify the Commissioner in the prescribed form of the adjournment and the reason therefor if (Amended L.N. 377 of 1980)
(a) the tribunal is of the opinion that there is a reasonable likelihood of a settlement of the claim; and
(b) all parties to the claim have agreed to an adjournment for the purpose of conciliation.
(4) The Commissioner may, when he has been notified of an adjournment pursuant to subsection (3), hold conciliation between such of the parties to the claim as are willing to take part.
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