Section 28: A person who –

(a) obstructs an officer or member of staff of the Board in the exercise of the functions or powers of the Board. (b) procures false testimony of a witness; (c) knowingly gives false or misleading evidence at a hearing; (d) bribes a witness; (e) in any way causes a disadvantage to a person because that person appeared as a witness before the Board; (f) impersonates an officer or member of staff of the Board; (g) assaults an officer or member of staff of the Board in the performance of his functions; (h) without lawful justification or excuse – (i) hinders or resist the Board or any other person in the discharge of functions under these Regulations; (ii) fails to comply with any lawful requirements of the Board or any other person under these Regulations; (c) having been served with a summons to produce any document or other thing in his custody or control, fails to do so; (d) being called or examined as a witness before the Board refuses to be sworn or to make an affirmation or refuses or otherwise fails to answer any question put to him; (e) misbehaves before the Board; (f) interrupts the proceedings of the Board; (g) publishes or discloses, or permits or allows to be published or disclosed, any evidence given before the Board or any of the contents of a document produced at a hearing which the Board has ordered not to be published or disclosed; or (h) does any other thing that, if the Board were a court, would be contempt of court. commits contempt of the Board. (2) Sub-regulation (1) (h) does not apply to an officer of the Board in the lawful performance of his functions. 27. (1) A contempt of the Board may be dealt with in accordance with this regulation. (2) The Chairman may present to the High Court, a certificate setting out the details which the Chairman considers constitute the contempt. (3) Where an offence is certified under subsection (2), the Court may inquire into the matter and after hearing any witness who may be produced against or on behalf of the person charged for the offence, and after hearing any statement that may be offered in defence, deal with him in any matter in which the Court could deal with him if he had committed the like offence in relation to the Court. Punishment for contempt. Offence.