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Sports Tribunal Act 2006

Sports Tribunal of New Zealand - Jurisdiction and procedure

45: Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate

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"What happens if you don't go to the Sports Tribunal or won't co-operate when asked"

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If you are summoned to attend the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand to give evidence or produce papers, documents, records, or things, you must go. You must also be sworn in and answer questions that you are lawfully required to answer. If you do not attend, or refuse to be sworn in, give evidence, or answer questions, or if you do not produce the required papers, documents, records, or things, you may commit an offence.

If you commit this offence, you can be fined up to $1,500 if you are convicted. You will only be convicted if you were given or paid your travelling expenses as set out in section 43.

You have to follow the rules when you are summoned to the Tribunal, and not attending or refusing to co-operate can have consequences.

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Part 3Sports Tribunal of New Zealand
Jurisdiction and procedure

45Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate

  1. Every person commits an offence who, after being summoned to attend to give evidence before the Tribunal or to produce to the Tribunal any papers, documents, records, or things, without sufficient cause,—

  2. fails to attend in accordance with the summons; or
    1. refuses to be sworn or to give evidence, or, having been sworn, refuses to answer any question that the person is lawfully required by the Tribunal or any member of it to answer concerning the proceedings; or
      1. fails to produce that paper, document, record, or thing.

        1. Every person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,500.

        2. No person summoned to attend before the Tribunal may be convicted of an offence against subsection (1) unless travelling expenses were tendered or paid to that person in accordance with section 43.

        Notes
        • Section 45(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).