Inquiries Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. I-11)

Marginal note:Witnesses failing to attend, etc.

• 10 (1) Every person who

  • (a) being required to attend in the manner provided in this Part, fails, without valid excuse, to attend accordingly,

  • (b) being commanded to produce any document, book or paper, in his possession or under his control, fails to produce the same,

  • (c) refuses to be sworn or to affirm, or

  • (d) refuses to answer any proper question put to him by a commissioner, or other officer or person referred to in section 9,

  is liable, on summary conviction before any provincial court judge, or judge of a superior or county court, having jurisdiction in the county or district in which that person resides, or in which the place is situated at which the person was required to attend, to a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars.

• Marginal note:Justice of the peace

  (2) For the purposes of this Part, a judge of a superior or county court referred to in subsection (1) shall be a justice of the peace.