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Laws of Malaysia
ACT 597
(a) to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral,
and to examine all such persons as witnesses, as the
Commission thinks necessary or desirable to procure or
examine;
(b) to require that the evidence, whether written or oral, of
any witness be given on oath or affirmation, such oath or
affirmation being that which could be required of the
witness if he were giving evidence in a court of law, and
to administer or cause to be administered by an officer
authorised in that behalf by the Commission an oath or
affirmation to every such witness;
(c) to summon any person residing in Malaysia to attend any
meeting of the Commission to give evidence or produce
any document or other thing in his possession, and to
examine him as a witness or require him to produce any
document or other thing in his possession;
(d) to admit notwithstanding any of the provisions of the
Evidence Act 1950 [Act 56], any evidence, whether
written or oral, which may be inadmissible in civil or
criminal proceedings; and
(e) to admit or exclude the public from such inquiry or any
part thereof.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(c), where a person summoned
is a person under detention under any other written law, such
summons shall be issued in accordance with the laws applicable in
relation to the place of detention.
Evidence before the Commission
15. (1) A person who gives evidence before the Commission shall,
in respect of such evidence, be entitled to all the privileges to which a
witness giving evidence before a court of law is entitled in respect of
evidence given by him before such court.