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Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

Miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

62: Evidence

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"What you need to tell the Commissioner when they're investigating something"

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The Commissioner can ask you to give information about something they are investigating. They can ask you to provide documents or things that are relevant to the investigation. You might get a notice in writing asking you to do this. The Commissioner can also ask you to come and answer questions about the investigation. They can ask you to promise to tell the truth, which is called taking an oath. If the Commissioner asks you questions, it is like being in a court, and you have to tell the truth, or it could be considered perjury, which is explained in section 108 of the Crimes Act 1961.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

62Evidence

  1. The Commissioner may from time to time, by notice in writing, require any person who in the Commissioner’s opinion is able to give information relating to any matter under investigation by the Commissioner to furnish such information, and to produce such documents or things in the possession or under the control of that person, as in the opinion of the Commissioner are relevant to the subject matter of the investigation.

  2. The Commissioner may summon before him or her and examine on oath any person who, in the Commissioner’s opinion is able to give information relating to the matter under investigation, and may, for that purpose, administer an oath to any person so summoned.

  3. Every such examination by the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of section 108 of the Crimes Act 1961 (which relates to perjury).

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