New South Wales Repealed Acts

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NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY (STATE PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 17

17 Power to summon witnesses and take evidence

(1) A member may summon a person to appear before the Authority at a hearing to give evidence and to produce such documents or other things (if any) as are referred to in the summons.

(2) A summons under subsection (1) requiring a person to appear before the Authority at a hearing shall be accompanied by a copy of the notice, or of each of the notices, by which the matter or matters to which the hearing relates was or were referred to the Authority under section 5, under the Commonwealth Act or under an Act of another State.

(3) A summons under subsection (1) requiring a person to appear before the Authority at a hearing shall, unless the member issuing the summons is satisfied that, in the particular circumstances of a special investigation to which the hearing relates, it would prejudice the effectiveness of the special investigation for the summons to do so, set out, so far as is reasonably practicable, the general nature of the matters in relation to which the Authority intends to question the person, but nothing in this subsection prevents the Authority from questioning the person in relation to any matter that relates to a special investigation.

(4) The member presiding at a hearing before the Authority may require a person appearing at the hearing to produce a document or other thing.

(5) The Authority may, at a hearing, take evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose:

(a) a member may require a person appearing at the hearing to give evidence either to take an oath or to make an affirmation in a form approved by the member presiding at the hearing, and

(b) a member, or a person who is an authorized person in relation to the Authority, may administer an oath or affirmation to a person so appearing at the hearing.

(6) In this section, a reference to a person who is an authorized person in relation to the Authority is a reference to a person authorized in writing, or a person included in a class of persons authorized in writing, for the purposes of this section by the Chairperson.