Cap. 164 чл. 25Collection of evidence.

(1) The Commissioner may collect the evidence personally or may authorise the disciplinary board to collect the evidence and to recommend the relative penalty, if any, applicable in the case.

(2) The Commissioner or the disciplinary board appointed as aforesaid, as the case may be, shall have the power and authority to hear evidence on oath, and a warrant signed by the said Commissioner or disciplinary board, as the case may be, shall be equivalent to a subpoena issued to compel the attendance of witnesses or to compel them to produce documents or other exhibits.

(3) No person summoned as a witness shall be obliged to answer any question or produce any document or other exhibit which may tend to incriminate him and every such person shall, in respect of any evidence given by him, be entitled to all the privileges to which a witness giving evidence in criminal proceedings before the Court of Magistrates, shall be entitled. In the same manner, the witness shall have the same duties as if he were summoned in criminal proceedings before the Court of Magistrates.

(4) Any person who gives false evidence on oath before the Commissioner or a disciplinary board appointed as aforesaid shall be guilty of a criminal offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years and to general interdiction.