26Conduct of inquiry

26 Conduct of inquiry

(1) An inquiry shall be held in private. (2) The rules of evidence do not apply in relation to an inquiry by a committee and the procedure for conducting an inquiry is, subject to this Act and the regulations, within the discretion of the member presiding. (3) Where a document, book or writing is produced at an inquiry by a committee: (a) a member of the committee may inspect the document, book or writing; (b) the member of the committee presiding at the inquiry may retain the document, book or writing in his or her possession for such reasonable time as he or she thinks fit; and (c) where the document, book or writing is so retained, a member of the committee may take copies from or take extracts from the document, book or writing. (4) The member of a committee presiding at an inquiry may adjourn the inquiry from time to time as he or she thinks fit.