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| (1) Any person who"
| | (a) without sufficient reason, publishes any statement or does any thing that brings the Commission or any member thereof into disrepute, during the progress or after the conclusion, of an investigation or review under this Act; | | |
| | (b) interferes with the process of the Commission ; | | |
| | (c) resists or obstructs a member, officer or servant of the Commission in the exercise by such member, officer or servant, of any power conferred on him by this Act; | | |
| | (d) in the course of any investigation or review under this Act"
| | | (i) fails without cause, which in the opinion of the Commission is reasonable, to appear before the Commission at the place and time mentioned in any summons issued by the Commission ; |
| (ii) refuses to be sworn, or having been duly sworn, refuses or fails without cause, which in the opinion of the Commission is reasonable, to answer question put to him touching the matters being investigated by the Commission ; |
| (iii) refuses or fails without cause which in the opinion of the Commission is reasonable, to produce and show to the Commission any document or other thing which is in his possession or power and which is in the opinion of the Commission necessary for arriving at the truth of the matters being investigated by the Commission, |
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| (2) In any prosecution For an offence under this Act. a certificate under the hand of the Secretary to the Commission , setting out the facts alleged to constitute such offence shall be received in evidence and deemed to be such certificate without further proof, unless the contrary is proved, and shall be prima facie proof of the facts stated therein |
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