Section 127

to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, and to examine all such persons (including the appellant) as the Committee of Enquiry may consider desirable;

to require the evidence of a person to be given on oath or affirmation or by statutory declaration;

to summon any person including the appellant to attend and give evidence notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law;

to admit any evidence, written or oral, notwithstanding that it would be inadmissible in civil or criminal proceedings;

and

to exclude the public from any investigation or any part thereof and, if the Committee of Enquiry considers it in the public interest so to do, receive evidence in the absence of the appellant; but where evidence is received in the absence of the appellant the Committee of Enquiry shall communicate to the appellant the substance of the evidence so far as it may be compatible with public interest so to do and shall in every such case include in the report to the

Minister a statement of the circumstances in which the evidence was received.

No appearance by advocate and solicitor before the Committee of

Enquiry