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to conduct hearings if the Commission considers necessary or desirable to do so;

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to procure and receive all such evidence, whether written or oral, and to examine all such persons as witnesses as the Commission considers necessary or desirable to procure or examine;

to require the evidence, whether written or oral, of any witnesses to be made on oath or affirmation (such oath or affirmation to be that which could be required of the witness if he was giving evidence in a court of law) or by statutory declaration;

to summon any person residing in Malaysia to attend any meeting or hearing of the Commission to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession;

to issue a warrant of arrest to compel the attendance of any person who, after having been summoned to attend, fails to do so and does not excuse such failure to the satisfaction of the Commission, and to order such person to pay all costs which may have been occasioned in compelling his attendance or by reason of his refusal to obey the summons, and also to fine such person a sum not exceeding five thousand ringgit;

to fine in a sum not exceeding five thousand ringgit any person who, being required by the Commission to give evidence on affirmation or to produce a document or other thing, refuses to do so and does not excuse such refusal to the satisfaction of the Commission;

to admit, notwithstanding any of the provisions of the

Evidence Act 1950 [Act 56], any evidence, whether written or oral, which may be inadmissible in civil or criminal proceedings;

to award any person who has attended any meeting or hearing of the Commission such sums as in the opinion of the Commission may have been reasonably incurred by such person by reason of such attendance; and

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to admit or exclude the public from such hearing or any part thereof.

Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(d), where a person summoned is a person under detention under any written law, such summons shall be issued in accordance with the laws applicable in relation to the place of detention.

Power to obtain documents or other things