LEGISLATIVE HOUSES (POWER AND PRIVILEGES) ACT
Section 6: Power to issue warrant to compel attendance.
(1) If a person to whom a summons under section 5 of this Act is directed does not attend before the committee at the time and place mentioned therein, the President or Speaker, as the case may be, of the Legislative House may, upon being satisfied that the summons was duly served or that the person to whom the summons is directed wilfully avoids service, issue a warrant to apprehend him and bring him, at a time and place to be stated in the warrant, before the committee.
(2) A warrant issued under this section shall be executed by a police officer.
(3) The President or Speaker, as the case may be, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person under this section, may if he thinks fit, by endorsement on the warrant, direct that the person named in the warrant be released after arrest on his entering into such a recognizance before a Magistrate for his appearance before the committee of the Legislative House as may be required in the endorsement.
Cite this section
Section 6, LEGISLATIVE HOUSES (POWER AND PRIVILEGES) ACT (1953).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/legislative-houses-power-and-privileges-act/section/6/