Section 12: Protection of Commissioners and witnesses
consolidated text (as at 1991, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
12. Protection of Commissioners and witnesses
(1) A Commissioner shall not be liable to any prosecution, action, or suit,
in respect of any matter or thing done by him as Commissioner.
(2) No evidence given before a Commission shall—
(a) give rise to any civil or criminal proceedings, other than a prosecution for perjury, against any person giving such evidence;
(b) be admissible against any person in any civil or criminal proceedings, except in the case of a witness charged with having given
false evidence before the Commissioner or Commissioners conducting an inquiry under this Act.
(3) No person giving evidence before a Commission shall refuse to
answer any question on the ground that an answer would incriminate him
and no incriminating answer shall be admissible against him in any prosecution, action or suit.
(4) Any person who wilfully gives false evidence before the Commission
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment.
[S. 12 amended by Act 58 of 1983; Act 34 of 1986.]