Chapter:	162	Title:	MIDWIVES REGISTRATION ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 247 of 1999
Section:	12	Heading:	Penalty for failure to give evidence	Version Date:	30/09/1999

Any person who, being summoned to attend as a witness or to produce any document or other thing at any inquiry held in accordance with the provisions of section 10, refuses or neglects to do so or to answer any question put to him by or with the leave of the Council commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months: (Amended 61 of 1997 s. 12)
Provided that no person shall be required to answer any question or produce any document or other thing which, in the opinion of the Council, may tend to incriminate himself, and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Council, be entitled to the same privileges to which he would be entitled if he were giving evidence before a court of justice.