Hong Kong Ordinances

PLANNERS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Powers in regard to obtaining of evidence and conduct at inquiry

(1) An inquiry committed shall have power-

   (a)  to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath;

   (b)  to summon any person to attend the inquiry either as the person whose
        conduct is the subject of the inquiry or to give evidence or produce
        any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a
        witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his
        possession, subject to all just exceptions;

   (c)  to admit or exclude the public or any member of the public from the
        inquiry;

   (d)  to admit or exclude the press from the inquiry;

   (e)  to award any person summoned to attend the inquiry as a witness such
        sum, to be paid from the funds of the Board, as in the opinion of the
        inquiry committee has been reasonably expended by him in connection
        with his attendance.

(2) The Registrar shall sign summonses to witnesses.

(3) No person shall be required to answer any question or produce any document
or other thing which, in the opinion of the inquiry  committee, may tend to
incriminate him.

(4) A witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the
inquiry committee, by entitled to the same privileges to which he would be
entitled if he were giving evidence in court. (Enacted 1991)