§383-100  Protection againstself-incrimination.  No person shall be excused from attending ortestifying or producing material, books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, andother records before the director of labor and industrial relations, any dulyauthorized representative of the director, the referee, or any substitutereferee, or in obedience to the subpoena of any of them, in any cause orproceeding before them or any of them, on the grounds that the testimony andevidence, documentary or otherwise, required of the person may tend toincriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture; but noindividual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for oron account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which the individualis compelled, after having claimed the individual's privilege againstself-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise,except that the individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecutionand punishment for perjury committed in so testifying. [L 1939, c 219, §10(i);am L 1941, c 304, §1, pt of subs 32; RL 1945, §4279; RL 1955, §93-99; am L Sp1959 2d, c 1, §27; HRS §383-100; gen ch 1985]