Chapter:	162	Title:	MIDWIVES REGISTRATION ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 247 of 1999
Section:	11	Heading:	Powers of Council with regard to obtaining evidence and the conduct of proceedings	Version Date:	30/09/1999

(1) For the purpose of any inquiry under section 8 or 10 the Council shall have the following powers- (Amended 61 of 1997 s. 27)

(a) to take evidence and examine witnesses on oath;
(b) to summon any person to attend the inquiry to give evidence or to produce any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or to require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession;
(c) to admit or exclude the public or any member of the public from the inquiry;
(d) to admit or exclude the press from the inquiry; and
(e) to award any person summoned to attend the inquiry such sum or sums as in the opinion of the Council may have been reasonably expended by him by reason of his attendance. (Amended 61 of 1997 s. 27)