Powers of the Board

(1) In performing its duties and functions under Section 22 of this Act, the Board may, (a) act on its own volition or at the request of or on information provided (in whatever manner and whether or not anonymously) by any person; (b) hold public consultations; (c) summon persons for meetings in camera and call for the production of books, plans and documents. (2) All summonses for the attendance of persons and for the production of books, plans and documents, may be in the form prescribed under the rules and procedures of the Board and shall be signed by the Chairperson. (3) The Board may order payment, out of its funds, to any witness who may appear and give evidence before it of such sums of money, not exceeding those which the Minister may 36 Management Fund from time to time by Order prescribe subject to affirmative resolution, as the Board thinks reasonable and sufficient to reimburse to such witness the travelling or other expenses which he has incurred in attending upon the Board and to compensate him for his trouble and loss of time, but it shall be lawful for the Board to abate or wholly disallow payment to any witness. (4) Every person who, (a) refuses or omits, without sufficient cause, to attend at the time and place mentioned in the summons served on him; or, (b) refuses or omits, without sufficient cause, to produce books, plans or documents in his possession or under his control, and mentioned or referred to in the summons served on him as being required to be produced shall be guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to [ ].