Section 689: Special commissioners for receiving evidence.

(1) Where a company is in course of being wound up, all magistrates shall be commissioners for the purpose of taking evidence under this Act and the Court may refer the whole or any part of the examination of any witnesses under this Act to any person appointed commissioner.
(2) Every commissioner shall, in addition to any power which he might lawfully exercise as a magistrate, have in the matter so referred to him the same powers as the Court, of—
(a) summoning and examining witnesses;
(b) requiring the production or delivery of documents;
(c) punishing defaults by witnesses; and
(d) allowing costs and expenses to witnesses.
(3) The examination so taken shall be returned or reported to the Court in such manner as that Court directs.