(35 ILCS 135/19) (from Ch. 120, par. 453.49)
Sec. 19.
No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any
books, papers, records, documents or memoranda in any investigation or upon
any hearing, when ordered to do so by the Department or any officer or
employee thereof, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence,
documentary or otherwise, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a
criminal penalty, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any
criminal penalty for, or on account of, any transaction made or thing
concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or
otherwise, before the Department or an officer or employee thereof;
provided, that such immunity shall extend only to a natural person who, in
obedience to a subpoena, gives testimony under oath or produces evidence,
documentary or otherwise, under oath. No person so testifying shall be
exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so
testifying.
(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1380.)
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