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2044 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.

Indemnity to 4. If in the opinion of the Governor in Council the special circum
witnesses.
[Ibid. s. 7. ] 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 witness any costs he may have been