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NATIONAL COMPANIES AND SECURITIES COMMISSION ACT 1979 No. 173, 1979 - SECT 37

Power to summon witnesses and take evidence
37. (1) A member or an acting member may summon a person to appear before the
Commission at a hearing to give evidence and to produce such documents (if
any) as are referred to in the summons.

(2) The Commission may, at a hearing, take evidence on oath or affirmation and
for that purpose a member or an acting member may-

   (a)  require a person appearing at the hearing to give evidence either to
        take an oath or make an affirmation; and

   (b)  administer an oath or affirmation to a person so appearing at the
        hearing.

(3) The oath or affirmation to be taken or made by a person for the purposes
of this section is an oath or affirmation that the answers he will give to the
questions asked him will be true. 


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