Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182:section:165
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 165
Character Range: 507524–509582

165  Power to require persons to appear and give evidence etc.
 (1) At or prior to a hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel in relation to a proposed decision affecting a person (the affected person), the Chair of the panel may, by written summons given to a person (other than the affected person):
 (a) require the person to appear before the panel at the hearing to give evidence, to produce specified documents, or to do both; and
 (b) require the person to attend from day to day unless excused, or released from further attendance, by the Chair.
Note 1: The affected person does not need to appear at the hearing (see subsection 162(1)).
Note 2: Failure to comply with a requirement made under this subsection is an offence (see subsection 170(1)).
 (2) At a hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel, the panel may take evidence on oath or affirmation, and for that purpose the Chair of the panel may:
 (a) require a person appearing at the hearing to either take an oath or make an affirmation; and
 (b) administer an oath or affirmation to a person appearing at the hearing.
Note: Failure to comply with a requirement made under this subsection is an offence (see subsection 170(2)).
 (3) The oath or affirmation to be taken or made by a person for the purposes of subsection (2) is an oath or affirmation that the evidence the person will give will be true.
 (4) The Chair of a Financial Services and Credit Panel presiding at a hearing of the panel:
 (a) may require a person appearing at the hearing to answer a question put to the person; and
 (b) may require a person appearing at the hearing pursuant to a summons issued under this section to produce a document specified in the summons.
Note: Failure to comply with a requirement made under this subsection is an offence (see subsection 170(3)).
 (5) The Chair of a Financial Services and Credit Panel may permit a person appearing at a hearing of the panel to give evidence by tendering, and if the Chair so requires, verifying by oath or affirmation, a written statement.