No. 12/2017 LAND COM}.;I!SSION Cap. 20:29 (3) The Commission shall not investigate a complaint or dispute(a) unless the complaint is made within three years from the date on which the cause of the complaint or dispute first arose or came to the notice of the complainant or disputant; or (b) where the action or omission to which the complaint or dispute relates(i) is the subject-matter of civil proceedings before any comt of competent jurisdiction; or (ii) involves relations or dealings between the Government and a foreign Government. 10 Manner of making complaints ( 1) The Commission shall, in regulations, prescribe the general manner in which complaints to it should be made, including the particulars required to be completed in a fonn specified by the Commission in those regulations. (2) The Conunission may require a complaint to be suppotted by such evidence and documentation as it may prescribe or in any particular case ask for. (3) The Conunission shall not refuse to investigate a complaint solely on the grounds that the complaint is not in proper form or not in compliance with the prescribed requirements or that it is not accompanied by the required documentation. 11 Refusal to investigate (1) The Connnission shall refuse to investigate any complaint if it is satisfied that it is not authorised in terms of the Constitution or this Act to carry out such investigation. (2) The Commission shall discontinue any investigation if it is satisfied by the evidence received by it that it is not authorised in terms of the Constitution or this Act to continue the investigation. (3) If the Commission refuses to investigate a complaint or discontinues an investigation it shall, in writing(a) (b) 12 inform the complainant and any patty complained against of its decision, stating its reasons for the decision; and if appropriate, advise the complainant of any other remedy that appears to it to be available to him or her. Manner of conducting investigations and audits (1) Subject to subsection (6) (concerning non-disclosure of certain evidence) the Connnission may in its discretion conduct an investigation or audit in the form of a public or closed hearing, for which purpose the Commission shall have the following powers(a) to issue summons to any individual, or to the principal officer of any public authority, company, corporate body or unregistered association, to attend before the Commission and to produce any document or record relevant to any investigation or audit by the Commission; and (b) to put any questions to the individual, or to the principal officer of any public authority, company, corporate body or unregistered association, which the Commission considers will assist its investigation of the complaint or the audit in question; and 212