Application of summary jurisdiction law with respect to witnesses

Subject to this Act, the law for the time being in force with respect to witnesses on the hearing of a complaint for an offence punishable in a summary jurisdiction court shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to witnesses on the holding of a preliminary inquiry before an examining magistrate in respect of a crime, with the addition that any of those witnesses shall be liable to be dealt with as hereinafter provided for refusing, without reasonable excuse, to sign his deposition or to enter into a recognisance.