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the notice.
(2) The power of a member under sub-section (1) to require a company to furnish information or produce documents applies only to information that is or documents that are—
       (a) relevant to the question whether the company is a company to which this Act applies;
       (b) relevant to the making of a decision by the Tribunal whether to hold an inquiry as to whether the price at which the company supplies or proposes to supply goods or services is justified; or
       (c) relevant to an inquiry that is being held as to whether the price at which the company supplies or proposes to supply goods or services is justified.
(3) A company shall not—
       (a) refuse or fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a. notice under this section; or
       (b) in purported compliance with such a notice, knowingly furnish information that is false or misleading.
   Penalty: One thousand dollars.
(4) Subject to sub-section (5), where, in pursuance of a notice served on a company in relation to information or documents to which paragraph (2) (c) applies, a company furnishes information or produces documents to the Tribunal in connexion with an. inquiry that is being held by the Tribunal, the Tribunal shall make the information or documents available to the public in such manner as the Tribunal thinks fit.
(5) The Tribunal shall not make information or documents available to any person in accordance with sub-section (4) if the company concerned informs the Tribunal that it objects to the information or documents being so made available and the Tribunal is satisfied that the information is, or the documents are, of a confidential nature.

Power to take evidence on oath or affirmation.
24. (1) The Tribunal may take evidence on oath or affirmation and, for that purpose, a member may administer an oath or affirmation.
(2) Any member of the Tribunal may, for the purposes of this Act, and any member of a Division of the Tribunal may, for the purposes of the inquiry to be conducted by that Division, by writing under his hand, summon a person to appear at an inquiry under this Act to give evidence and to produce such books and documents (if any) as are referred to in the summons.
(3) A power conferred on a member under sub-section (2) may, in the discretion of the member, be exercised on the application of a party to the inquiry.

Failure of witness to attend.
25. A person served with a summons to appear as a witness at an inquiry shall not, without reasonable excuse—
       (a) fail to attend as required by the summons; or
       (b) fail to appear and report himself from day to day