Form and issue of summons
13A.—(1)  A tribunal or the Registrar may, on the tribunal’s or the Registrar’s own initiative or at the request (by an application in the appropriate Form) of any party to the proceedings before the tribunal, summon any person —
(a)to attend before the tribunal at the time and place specified in the summons to give evidence at the hearing and produce documents in the person’s possession, custody or control; or
(b)without attending before the tribunal, to produce to the tribunal such documents in the person’s possession, custody or control as are specified in the summons.
(2)  The fee specified in item 11 or 12 of the First Schedule is payable by the party requesting the summons on sealing a summons to a witness under paragraph (1).
(3)  The tribunal may determine —
(a)the sum (if any) to be paid to the person to whom the summons is directed for each day or part of a day during which the person is required to be present before the tribunal;
(b)which party is to pay the sum mentioned in sub-paragraph (a); and
(c)where 2 or more persons are to pay such sum, how that sum is to be apportioned between those persons.
[S 199/2022 wef 01/04/2022]