Offences and penalty respecting non-attendance of witness
16If a person duly summoned to give evidence does not appear to the summons after being openly called three times or the person appears to the summons but refuses without reasonable excuse to answer a question put to them, the coroner may impose on the person a fine not exceeding the maximum fine that may be imposed under subsection 56(6) of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act for a category F offence.
Offences and penalty respecting non-attendance of witness
16When a person duly summoned to give evidence does not after being openly called three times appear to such summons, or appearing refuses without lawful excuse to answer a question put to him, the coroner may impose on such person a fine not exceeding the maximum fine that may be imposed under subsection 56(5) of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act for a category F offence or the coroner may commit such person to a correctional institution for such period, not exceeding fourteen days, as to the coroner may seem right, or until he purges his contempt and pays the cost of the issuing of the commitment, the execution thereof, and of his conveyance to the correctional institution.
Offences and penalty respecting non-attendance of witness
16When a person duly summoned to give evidence does not after being openly called three times appear to such summons, or appearing refuses without lawful excuse to answer a question put to him, the coroner may impose on such person a fine not exceeding the maximum fine that may be imposed under subsection 56(5) of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act for a category F offence or the coroner may commit such person to a correctional institution for such period, not exceeding fourteen days, as to the coroner may seem right, or until he purges his contempt and pays the cost of the issuing of the commitment, the execution thereof, and of his conveyance to the correctional institution.