Employment Equality Act, 1998

Offences relating to inquiries etc.

60.—(1) Every person who—

(a) fails or refuses to supply to the Authority information required by it and specified in a notice under section 59 (1)(a),

(b) fails or refuses to produce or send to the Authority any document in that person's power or control as required by a notice under section 59 (1)(b),

(c) on being duly summoned as a witness by a notice under section 59 (1)(c), fails or refuses to attend before the Authority,

(d) being in attendance as a witness before the Authority, refuses to take an oath or affirmation when required by the Authority to do so or to answer any question to which the Authority may require an answer, or

(e) does anything which, if the Authority were a court of justice having power to commit for contempt of court, would be contempt of court,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) The court by which a person is convicted of an offence under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) may require the person to comply with the notice referred to in that paragraph.

(3) A person to whom a notice has been delivered under section 59 (1)(a) who—

(a) makes a false statement when supplying to the Authority information specified in the notice, or

(b) alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys a document specified in the notice,

shall be guilty of an offence.