Part 10
Institutions
Employment Court
195Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate
Every person commits an offence, and is liable on conviction by the court to a fine not exceeding $5,000, who, after being summoned under this Act as a witness,—
- refuses or neglects, without sufficient cause, to attend as a witness before the Authority or the
court or to produce to the Authority or the court any books, papers, documents, records, or things
required by the summons to be produced; or
- refuses, without sufficient cause, to be sworn or to give evidence or, having been sworn, refuses
to answer any question that the person is lawfully required by the Authority or the court to answer
concerning the proceedings.
No person summoned under this Act as a witness is liable to a fine under this Act unless there has been paid or tendered to that person in accordance with clause 6 of Schedule 2 the amount fixed under subclause (3) of that clause or in accordance with clause 7 of Schedule 3 the amount fixed under subclause (3) of that clause.
Compare
- 1991 No 22 s 127