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NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 129

Refusal to be sworn or give evidence

  (1)   A person appearing as a witness before a Committee shall not refuse to be sworn or to make an affirmation or to answer a question relevant to the proceedings put to the person by a member of the Committee.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units, or both.

  (2)   A statement or disclosure made by a witness to a Committee is not admissible in evidence against the witness in civil or criminal proceedings in a court except in a prosecution for giving false testimony in the Committee's proceedings.


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