Section 5Part 2 — Unconscionable Increases of Prices of Commodities During a Declared State of Emergency or During a Period Following a Natural Disaster
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Where the Commission has received a written complaint that a person may have committed an offence under section 4 the Commission shall conduct such inquiry as it considers necessary in the circumstances of the case; and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Commission shall have the power to order under the hand of the Chairman any person to attend before it and give evidence on oath or otherwise and to require the production of accounts, records and other documents so as to elicit all such information relevant to the matter inquired into as the Commission may think necessary.
A person who —
fails without reasonable excuse to attend before the Commission in compliance with an order under subsection (1);
when in attendance before the Commission refuses to make an oath; or
refuses to produce a document, knowingly produces a false document or refuses to give evidence in compliance with such aforesaid order,
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty thousand dollars.
Notwithstanding subsection (2), a person shall not be punished for refusing to answer any question or to produce any document which he could not be required to answer or produce before a court in the Islands or for failing or refusing to answer any question or produce any document which is not relevant to the matters in issue.
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