s 127
Subject to section 129 and any regulations made under this Act, a Committee of Enquiry shall have power+ (a) to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, and to examine all such persons (including the appellant) as the Committee of Enquiry may consider desirable; ! (b) to require the evidence of a person to be given on oath ot affirmation or by statutory declaration; (c) to summon any person including the appellant to attend and give evidence notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law; (d) to admit any evidence, written or oral, notwithstanding that it would be inadmissible in civil or criminal proceedings; and (e) to exclude the public trom any investigation or any part thereof and, if the Committee of Enquiry considers it in the public interest so to do, receive evidence in the absence of the appellant; but where evidence is received in the absence of the appellant the Committee of Enquiry shall communicate to the appellant the substance of the evidence so far as it may be compatible with public interest so to do and shall in every such case include in the report to the Minister a statement of the circumstances in which the evidence was received.