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Offences in relation to advisory committees.
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10.—The Second Schedule to the Principal Act shall have effect as if the following subparagraph were substituted for subparagraph (4) of paragraph 12:
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“(4) If any person—
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(a) on being duly summoned before an Advisory Committee makes default in attending, or
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(b) being in attendance as a witness refuses to take an oath legally required to be taken by him, or to produce any document in his power or control legally required to be produced by him, or to answer any question to which that Advisory Committee may legally require an answer, or
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(c) does any thing which if that Advisory Committee were a court of justice having power to commit for contempt of court, would be contempt of such court,
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that person shall be guilty of an offence and sections 26 to 28 of this Act shall apply in relation to the offence as if it were an offence under a section of this Act.”.
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