SCHEDULE 3PROVISIONS AS TO APPEAL HEARINGS
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The chairperson may by notice require any person–
a
to attend at the time and place specified in the notice, to give evidence or to produce any books or documents in that person’s custody or under that person’s control which relate to any matter in question at the hearing; or
b
to provide within such reasonable period as is specified in the notice such information relating to any matter in question at the hearing as the chairperson who presides over the hearing may think fit, and as the person so required is able to provide; but–
i
no person shall be required to attend at any place which is more than 10 miles from the place where that person resides unless the necessary expenses are paid or tendered to that person; and
ii
nothing in this paragraph shall empower the chairperson to require any person to produce any book or document or to answer any question which that person would be entitled, on the ground of privilege or confidentiality, to refuse the produce or to answer if the hearing were a court of law.