Article 15. Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate.

Article 15: Witness’s Duty to Answer

• Key Point: A witness must answer all relevant questions in a legal proceeding, even if the answers could incriminate them. However, these answers cannot be used against them in a criminal case, except if they lie.
• Illustration: If a witness is asked about their involvement in a crime during a trial, they must answer truthfully. Their answers cannot lead to their arrest for that crime, but they can be charged with perjury if they lie.

Article 15. Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate.—

A witness shall not be excused from answering any question as to any matter relevant to the matter in issue in any suit or in any civil or criminal proceedings, upon the ground that the answer to such question will criminate, or may tend directly or indirectly to criminate, such witness, or that it will expose, or tend directly or indirectly to expose, such witness to a penalty or forfeiture of any kind:

Provided that no such answer, which a witness shall be compelled to give, shall subject him to any arrest or prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such answer.

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