Section 67: Misconduct on a witness.

When any person-(a) on being summoned as a witness before a pilotage board fails to attend;
(b) refuses to take an oath or to affirm when required to do so by a pilotage board during an inquiry;
(c) refuses to produce any document in his power or control legally required by the pilotage board during an inquiry;
(d) refuses to answer any question to which a pilotage board may legally require an answer;
(e) during an inquiry is, in the opinion of the pilotage board, guilty of contempt towards the board, the Chairman of the pilotage board may make a written complaint concerning the conduct of the person to any court which has power to punish persons if guilty of like conduct in that court, and the court may thereupon inquire into such alleged conduct, and after examination of any witnesses that may be produced for or against the person complained against, and after hearing any statement that may be offered in defence, the court may if it seems just, punish the person complained against as if he had been guilty of such conduct in a proceeding in that court.