9. For the purpose of discharging its functions, the Committee shall have all or any of the following powers :
| (a)procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral and to examine all such persons as witnesses, as the Committee may think necessary or desirable to procure or examine; |
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| (b)require the evidence, whether written or oral of any witness, to be given on oath or affirmation (Such oath or affirmation would be such as would be administered if he were giving evidence in a court of law) and such oath or affirmation shall be administered to every such witness by an officer authorized in that behalf by the Committee; |
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| (c) summon any person residing in Sri Lanka to attend any inquiry of the Committee to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession, and examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document of other thing in his possession ; |
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| (d) admit, notwithstanding the provisions of the Evidence Ordinance, any evidence whether written or oral, which would otherwise be inadmissible in any civil or criminal proceedings : |
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| (e)admit or exclude the public from such inquiry or investigation or any part thereof. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts