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(2) A Community Committee shall have the
powers of a Judge of the Supreme Court to
summon and examine witnesses for the purposes

of subsection (1) of this section and no member.

of a Community Committee shall be liable to any
action or suit for any matter or thing done by
him as euch member.

(3) Every summons for the attendance of
witnesses or other persons shall be signed by the
chairman of the Community Committee.

(4) Any witness who shall wilfully give false
evidence in any proceedings before a Community
- Committee shall be guilty of perjury, und be liable
to be prosecuted and punished accordingly.

(5) All persons summoned to attend and
give evidence before a Community Committee
shall be bound to obey the summons rerved upon

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them as fully, in all respects, as witnesses are _

bound to obey subpwnas issued from the Supreme
Court.

(6) Every person. refusing, or omitting
without sufficient cause, to attend at the time and
place meutioned in the summons served on him,
and every person attending but leaving the pro-
ceedings without the permission of the Community
Committee, or refusing to answer, or to auswer
fully and satisfactorily to the best of his knowledge
and belief, all questions put to him by or with the
concurrence of the Community Committee, and
every person who shall at any sitting of a Com-
munity Committee wilfully insult any member of
such Committee or wilfully interrupt the proceed-
ings of such Committee, shall on summary convic-
tion thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars.

11. It shall be the duty of the police officers
to attend at proceedings before a Community
Committee to preserve order during such proceed-
‘ings and to perform such other duties as usually
pertain to their office when in attendance upon the
Supreme Court, and to serve summons on
_ witnesses, and to perform such ministerial duties
as the Community Committee shall direct,

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Police to
attend at
proceedings
before Com-
munity Com-
nittee.