Calcutta Pilots Act : Penalty for witnesses not attending or refusing to give evidence. Indian Bare

Calcutta Pilots Act,1859

Act No : 12

Section : Penalty for witnesses not attending or refusing to give evidence.

14. Penalty for witnesses not attending or refusing to give evidence.--If any person who shall have been duly summoned to attend as a witness shall, without sufficient excuse, neglect or refuse to attend, or attending shall refuse to give evidence or to answer any question which may be lawfully put to him, such person shall forfeit and pay such fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees, as the Judge of the said Court shall order; and such fine, if not paid, shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person ordered to pay the same in the manner prescribed in section 9 of this Act.