Section 40

procure and receive all such evidence on oath or affirmation, whether written or oral, and examine all such persons as witnesses, as the Tribunal thinks necessary;

require the production before it of any information, book, paper, document, record or thing;

administer such oath, affirmation or statutory declaration as the case may require;

seek and receive any other evidence and make any other inquiries as it thinks fit;

summon the parties to the proceedings or any other person to attend before it to give evidence or to produce any document, record or other thing in his possession or otherwise to assist the Tribunal in its deliberations;

receive expert evidence;

direct that any information, book, paper, document or thing tendered in evidence shall not be disclosed or published in any newspaper or otherwise;

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direct that any evidence shall be taken in private and no person shall be present during the taking of that evidence unless permitted by the Tribunal; and

direct and do all such things as may be necessary or expedient for the expeditious determination of the complaint.

A summons issued under paragraph (1)(e) shall be served and enforced as if it were a summons issued by a subordinate court.

Any person who contravenes paragraph (1)(g) commits an offence.

Exclusion of evidence