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322: Board may hear evidence for disciplinary matters
or “The Board can listen to and look at different kinds of information to help them make decisions about someone's behaviour.”
You could also call this:

“The Board can ask someone to come to a hearing and tell the truth or bring important things”

The Board can send you a written summons asking you to come to a hearing. When you get a summons, you might need to give evidence, swear an oath, or bring documents or things that are important for the hearing. The summons will tell you when and where to go, what to bring, and if you’ll get paid for your time. It will also say what happens if you don’t show up. The Board can ask you to swear that the things you bring are real and true. This is how the Board makes sure they get all the information they need for the hearing.

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or “A summons is a special letter that tells someone they need to come to a meeting, and there are different ways to give it to them.”
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323Issuing of summons by Board

  1. The Board may issue a summons to a person requiring that person to attend a hearing before the Board and to do all or any of the following matters:

  2. give evidence:
    1. give evidence under oath:
      1. produce documents, things, or information, or any specified documents, things, or information, in the possession or control of that person that are relevant to the hearing.

        1. The summons must be in writing, be signed by a member of the Board, and state—

        2. the date and time when, and the place where, the person must attend; and
          1. the documents, things, or information that the person is required to bring and produce to the Board; and
            1. if a sum in respect of witnesses' fees, allowances, and expenses is not paid at the time of the summons, the entitlement to be paid or tendered a sum at some reasonable time before the hearing; and
              1. the penalty for failing to attend.

                1. The Board may require that any documents, things, or information produced under this section be verified by oath, statutory declaration, or otherwise.

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