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Indemnity to witnesses. [Ibid. s. 7.]
ORDINANCE No. 27 OF 1886.
Commissioners Powers.
And in such cases a summons under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of any such commission as aforesaid, countersigned by the secretary, or clerk (if any) to such commission, may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any action or suit for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or compelling the production of documents; and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of any such commission as aforesaid, countersigned by the secretary or clerk as aforesaid (if any), and shall not authorise the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three months.
(2.) The power for the purposes of their commission to enter and view any premises.
(3.) The right to conduct every examination of witnesses as aforesaid, either in public or private, as their commission may direct provided that if such examination be conducted in public, due notice shall be given of the time and place of holding the same, but with power to the commissioners to adjourn any meeting from time to time and from one place to another.
4. If in the opinion of the Governor in Council the special circumstances of any inquiry render it necessary or expedient, and provided the commission, under which the commissioners are appointed, so direct, any person examined as a witness in any inquiry as aforesaid, who in the opinion of the commissioners, makes a full and true disclosure touching all the matters in respect of which he is examined, shall receive a certificate under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of such commission, countersigned by the secretary or clerk (if any), stating that the witness has upon his examination made a full and true disclosure as aforesaid; and if any civil or criminal proceeding be at any time thereafter instituted against such witness in respect of any matter touching which he has been so examined, the tribunal before which such proceeding is instituted shall, on the production and proof of the certificate, stay the proceeding, and may in its discretion award to such witness any costs he may have been
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Indemnity to witnesses. [Ibid. s. 7.]
ORDINANCE No. 27 OF 1886.
Commissioners Powers.
And in such cases a summons under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of any such commission as aforesaid, countersigned by the secretary, or clerk (if any) to such commission, may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any action or suit for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or compelling the production of documents; and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of any such commission as aforesaid, countersigned by the secretary or clerk as aforesaid (if any), and shall not authorise the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three months.
(2.) The power for the purposes of their commission to enter
and view any premises.
(3.) The right to conduct every examination of witnesses as aforesaid, either in public or private, as their commission may direct provided that if such examination be con- ducted in public, due notice shall be given of the time and place of holding the same, but with power to the commissioners to adjourn any meeting from time to time and from one place to another.
4. If in the opinion of the Governor in Council the special circum- stances of any inquiry render it necessary or expedient, and provided the commission, under which the commissioners are appointed, so direct, any person examined as a witness in any inquiry as aforesaid, who in the opinion of the commissioners, makes a full and true disclosure touching all the matters in respect of which he is examined, shall receive a certificate under the hand of the chairman or presiding member of such commission, countersigned by the secretary or clerk (if any), stating that the witness. has upon his examination made a full and true disclosure as aforesaid; and if any civil or criminal proceeding be at any time thereafter instituted against such witness in respect of any matter touching which he has been so examined, the tribunal before which such proceeding is instituted shall, on the production and proof of the certificate, stay the proceeding, and may in its discretion award to such ess any costs he may have been
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