(a) The Trial Panel shall have the power and authority to: Administer oaths and affirmations and hear evidence, and compel, by subpoena, the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, records, papers, documents or other tangible evidence, either for deposition or for trial; witnesses shall be paid, upon demand, mileage and witness fees as provided by the law in civil cases.

(b) Oaths or affirmations may be administered, and subpoenas may be issued, by the Presiding Master, or by any officer authorized by law to administer an oath or issue subpoenas.

(c) Whenever any person (except the respondent in a case where his answer may not be compelled under Rule 6.11(d) below) subpoenaed or ordered to appear by the Trial Panel to give testimony, or to produce books, records, papers, documents or other tangible evidence, fails to comply, or whenever any person (except the respondent pursuant to Rule 6.11(d) below), present at a hearing, refuses to testify or to answer any proper question or to obey any proper order, the Trial Panel may enforce compliance with its directions or orders as hereinafter provided. It may take such steps as are necessary to maintain order in its sessions. In the event of contemptuous refusal to obey its lawful orders, it shall certify the matter to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who shall assign the case for trial and appropriate disposition to a judge of a district court. In such proceeding, the General Counsel shall act as prosecutor against the alleged contemnor.

(d) The respondent may be called as a witness either by the prosecution or on his own behalf, and when called upon to give testimony, the respondent may not decline to answer any relevant question unless he personally states that his answer thereto might disclose matters that are privileged or that would tend to incriminate him or show him to be guilty of any act or offense that would be grounds for discipline.