Section 11

to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, and to examine all such persons as witnesses as the

Commissioners may think it necessary or desirable to procure or examine;

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

to summon any person in Sarawak to attend any meeting of the Commissioners to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession, and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession;

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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

Commissioners, and to order him 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 one hundred ringgit;

[Am. Ord. No. 16/57.]

to fine, in a sum not exceeding one hundred ringgit, any person attending, but leaving the Commission without the permission of the Commissioners, or refusing without cause to give evidence on oath or affirmation or to answer, or to answer fully and satisfactorily, to the best of his knowledge and belief, all questions put to him by or with the concurrence of the

Commissioners, or refusing or omitting without sufficient cause to produce any books, plans or documents in his possession or under his control, and mentioned or referred to in the summons served on him;

[Sub. Ord. No. 7/61.]

to admit any evidence, whether written or oral, which might be inadmissible in civil or criminal proceedings;

subject to any direction contained in the Commission—

to admit or exclude the public from the inquiry or any part thereof;

to award any person who has attended any meeting of the Commissioners, including any interpreter appointed under section 12, such sums as, in the opinion of the Commissioners, may have been reasonably incurred by him by reason of such attendance.

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Interpreters