Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CONSUMER AND TRADER TRIBUNAL ACT 2003 (NO. 16 OF 2003) - SECT 33

    (1)     For a tribunal hearing, the member presiding, the registrar or a deputy registrar may summon a person to appear as a witness before the tribunal—

        (a)     to give evidence; or

        (b)     to give evidence and produce a document or thing stated in the summons that is in the person's possession, custody or control; or

        (c)     to produce a document or thing stated in the summons that is in the person's possession, custody or control.

    (2)     The tribunal may give a party leave to inspect a document produced under a summons.

    (3)     A person is taken to have complied with a summons to produce a document or thing if the person gives the document or thing to the registrar before the date stated in the summons.

    (4)     A summons must be in writing and served on the person named in the summons.

    (5)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     a summons is served on the person; and

        (b)     the person does not comply with the summons.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (6)     An offence against subsection (5) is a strict liability offence.

Note     The Legislation Act, s 170 and s 171 deal with the application of the privilege against selfincrimination and client legal privilege.