Singapore legislation
Clause 37
Clause 37
Powers of Complaints Committee
(1)
For the purposes of any inquiry, a Complaints Committee may —
call upon or appoint any person the Committee considers necessary to assist it in its inquiry;
require any person to produce any book, document, paper or other record which may be related to or be connected with the subject-matter of the inquiry for inspection by the Complaints Committee or the person appointed under paragraph (a) and for making copies thereof; and
require any person to attend at a specified time and place and give evidence or produce any such book, document, paper or record.
(2)
Any person who, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to comply with any requirement of the Complaints Committee under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $50 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.
(3)
A Complaints Committee may seek such legal advice as it thinks necessary at any time before it makes its findings.