Section 13: Offences

13. Offences Any person who – (a) fails to attend the Human Rights Division after having been required to do so; (b) refuses to take an oath before the Human Rights Division 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 Human Rights Division or to produce any document or other exhibit when required to do so by the Human Rights Division; (c) knowingly gives false evidence, or evidence which he knows to be misleading, before the Human Rights Division; (d) conceals, destroys, alters, tampers with, or otherwise disposes of, any article, or book, record, accounts, report or data, stored electronically or otherwise, or other document, which he has been summoned or required to produce; (e) procures the false testimony of a witness, or interferes with a witness on account of his testimony, before the Human Rights Division; (f) knowingly makes or causes to be made a false complaint before the Human Rights Division; (g) at any sitting of the Human Rights Division – (i) insults a member; or (ii) interrupts the proceedings; Acts 2012 371 (h) obstructs or assaults a member or an officer of the Human Rights Division in the exercise of his functions and powers; (i) impersonates a member or an officer of the Human Rights Division; (j) commits a contempt of the Commission, 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 2 years.