Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005

Evidence of failure to attend before or give evidence or produce documents to Labour Court.

31.—A document purporting to be signed by the chairperson or a vice-chairperson of the Labour Court stating that—

(a) a person named in the document was, by a notice under section 39 (17) of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 as applied to this Act by section 29 (7), required to attend before the Labour Court on a day and at a time and place specified in the document, to give evidence or produce a document,

(b) a sitting of the Labour Court was held on that day and at that time and place, and

(c) the person did not attend before the Labour Court in pursuance of the notice or, as the case may be, having so attended, refused to give evidence or refused or failed to produce the document,

shall, in a prosecution of the person under section 39 (17) of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 as applied to this Act by section 29 (7), be evidence of the matters so stated without further proof.