Powers vested in the Board.
Section 6
SEC. 6. Powers vested in the Board.—The Board of Examiners for Sugar Technologists is vested with authority conformably with the provisions of this Act, to administer the provisions hereof, to issue, suspend and revoke certificates of registration, for the practice of sugar technology, and to administer oaths. (a) In carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the Board may, under the hand of the Chairman and the seal of the Board, subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and also may require the production of books, documents, and papers, in a case involving the revocation of registration or the practice of sugar technology without registration. Any member of the Board may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the Board. If any person shall refuse to obey a subpoena so issued or shall refuse to testify or produce any books documents, or other papers, the Board may present a petition to the Court of First Instance, setting forth the facts and thereupon such court shall, in proper case, issue its subpoena to such person, requiring his attendance before such court and thereto testify or produce such books, documents, or papers, as may be deemed necessary and pertinent by the Board. Any person failing or refusing to obey the subpoena or order of said court may be prosecuted against in the same manner as for refusal to obey other subpoena or order of the court. (b) The Board shall exercise the powers conferred upon it by this Act, evaluate academic courses or practical training in sugar technology, sugar chemistry and/or sugar engineering and shall make recommendation to the Secretary of Education who shall take appropriate action thereon to improve the educational standards in sugar technology; to inspect centrifugal sugar mills, refineries, or factories, schools and other educational institutions and, in general, to study conditions affecting the practice of sugar technology in the Philippines. (c) Unless authorized by the other Boards of Examiners concerned in the exercise of the powers vested in them by law, no sugar laboratory, centrifugal sugar mill, sugar refinery, or factory engaged in the processing, manufacture, or refining of sugar and its by products shall operate without first obtaining a license from the Board of Examiners for Sugar Technologists.