Schedule 2
(Section 8(6))
Provisions applying in relation to tribunals appointed under section 8(5)
1. The members of a tribunal may make such rules for their own guidance, and the conduct and management of proceedings before them and the hours and times and places for their sittings, as they may, from time to time, think fit, and may, from time to time, adjourn for such time and to such place as they may think fit.
2. The members of a tribunal shall have the powers of a judge of the High Court to summon witnesses, and to call for the production of books and documents, and to examine witnesses on oath, and no member shall be liable to any action or suit for any matter or thing done by him or her as such.
3. Any person whose conduct is the subject of inquiry by a tribunal shall be entitled to, and any other person may by leave of the tribunal, be represented by counsel at the whole of the inquiry.
4. Any witness who shall wilfully give false evidence in any such inquiry, concerning the subject matter of such inquiry, shall be guilty of perjury, and be liable to be prosecuted and punished accordingly.
5. All persons summoned to attend and give evidence or to produce documents or any other matter at any sitting of a tribunal, shall be bound to obey the summons served upon them as fully, in all respects, as witnesses are bound to obey subpoenas issued from the High Court, and shall be entitled to the like expenses as if they had been summoned to attend the High Court on a criminal trial, if the same shall be allowed by the tribunal, but the tribunal may disallow the whole or any part of such expenses in any case, if they think fit. Orders for the payment of such witnesses shall be made, as nearly as may be, as orders are made for the payment of witnesses at the High Court. Every person refusing or omitting, without sufficient cause, to attend at the time and place mentioned in the summons served on him or her, and every person attending, but leaving the enquiry without the permission of the tribunal, or refusing to answer, or to answer fully and satisfactorily to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, all questions put to him or her by or with the concurrence of the tribunal, or refusing or omitting, without sufficient cause, to produce any documents or other matters in his or her possession or under his or her control and mentioned or referred to in the summons served on him or her, and every person who shall, at any sitting of a tribunal, wilfully insult any member or servant of the tribunal or wilfully interrupt the proceedings of the tribunal, is liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding $200.
6. No statement made by any person who is called as a witness before a tribunal in answer to any question put by or with the concurrence of the tribunal shall, except in cases of indictments for perjury, be admissible in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding.