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Penalty for disobedience, disrespect or obstruction
Cap. 299, s. 17 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Any person who,
(a) without sufficient cause, fails or refuses when ordered by an Arbitration Tribunal or a Board of Inquiry under section 11 of this Act, to furnish in writing or otherwise such particulars as may be required by the Tribunal or the Board;
(b) without sufficient cause, fails or refuses to attend before an Arbitration Tribunal or a Board of Inquiry in obedience to a summons issued under this Act or fails or refuses to produce any paper, book, record or document which it was required by such summons to produce;
(c) being a witness, leaves the Arbitration Tribunal or Board, as the case may be,
without permission of the Tribunal or the
(d) being a witness, refuses without sufficient cause to answer any question put to him by or with the permission of the Tribunal or the Board; or
(e) wilfully obstructs or interrupts the proceedings of an Arbitration Tribunal or a Board of Inquiry,
12 (Arbitration and Inquiry) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
(2) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
(Arbitration and Inquiry) 13 SCHEDULE TRADE AND DISPUTES (ARBITRATION AND INQUIRY) ACT Summons To Witness [Section 11 (2)] TO: (name of person summoned and his calling and address, if known) YOU are hereby summoned to appear before the (Arbitration Tribunal or Board of Inquiry as the case may be) appointed by the Minister to (state briefly the matter referred to the Tribunal or the Board) at (place) upon the day of 20, at o’clock and to give evidence respecting the matter which has been referred to the (Tribunal or Board, as the case may be) (If the person summoned is to produce any documents, add):
AND you are required to bring with you (specify the papers,
books, records and documents required).
THEREFORE fail not at your peril.
GIVEN under the hand of (Arbitrator, or Chairperson of the Arbitration Tribunal, or Chairperson of the Board of Inquiry,
as the case may be) this _____________day of________________20..........
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