Section 14

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

Commission thinks necessary or desirable to procure or examine;

to require that the evidence, whether written or oral, of any witness be given on oath or affirmation, such oath or affirmation being that which could be required of the witness if he were giving evidence in a court of law, and to administer or cause to be administered by an officer authorised in that behalf by the Commission an oath or affirmation to every such witness;

to summon any person residing in Malaysia to attend any meeting of the Commission 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;

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; and

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

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

Evidence before the Commission