Section 30J: Offences relating to proceedings of Review Panel
This section is inserted by Act No 18 of 2021, section 9.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
30J. Offences relating to proceedings of Review Panel
Any person who, without reasonable cause –
(a) fails to attend the Review Panel after having been
summoned to do so;
(b) refuses to take an oath before the Review Panel, or
to answer fully and satisfactorily to the best of his
knowledge and belief any question lawfully put to
him in any proceedings before the Review Panel or to
produce documents when required to do so;
(c) knowingly gives false evidence, or evidence which
he knows to be misleading, before the Review Panel;
(d) at any hearing of the Review Panel –
(i) wilfully insults a member;
(ii) wilfully interrupts or disturbs the proceedings; or
(e) does any other act or thing that would, if the Review
Panel were a Court of law, constitute a contempt of
the Court,
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a
fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 3 years.