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(1)Where a person—
(a)fails to comply with, or acts in breach of, a notice under section 19 or 21 or an order made by an inquiry, or
(b)threatens to do so,
the chairman of the inquiry, or after the end of the inquiry the Minister, may certify the matter to the appropriate court.
(2)The court, after hearing any evidence or representations on a matter certified to it under subsection (1), may make such order by way of enforcement or otherwise as it could make if the matter had arisen in proceedings before the court.
(3)In this section “the appropriate court” means the High Court or, in the case of an inquiry in relation to which the relevant part of the United Kingdom is Scotland, the Court of Session.
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