Section 195 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate

195 Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate (1) Every person commits an offence, and is liable on conviction by the Court to a fine not exceeding $5,000, who, after being summoned under this Act as a witness,— (a) refuses or neglects, without sufficient cause, to attend as a witness before the Authority or the Court or to produce to the Authority or the Court any books, papers, documents, records, or things required by the summons to be produced; or (b) refuses, without sufficient cause, to be sworn or to give evidence or, having been sworn, refuses to answer any question that the person is lawfully required by the Authority or the Court to answer concerning the proceedings. (2) No person summoned under this Act as a witness is liable to a fine under this Act unless there has been paid or tendered to that person in accordance with clause 6 of Schedule 2 the amount fixed under subclause (3) of that clause or in accordance with clause 7 of Schedule 3 the amount fixed under subclause (3) of that clause. Compare: 1991 No 22 s 127