Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 129B

129B Person may be examined without subpoena or other process

(1) A court may order a person who is present at the hearing of a proceeding and compellable to give evidence in the proceeding to give evidence or to produce a document or thing even if a subpoena or other process requiring the person to attend for that purpose has not been duly served on the person.

(2) If ordered to give evidence or to produce a document or thing, the person is subject to the same penalties and liabilities as if the person had been duly served with a subpoena or other process.