Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
8. No order of the Governor General in Council or of a rinatitsof order8 constitut. Local Government appoiiiting any person as a member of a ing a Goart OT Board. Court or a Board shall be called in question in any manner.
order8 constitut. ing a Goart OT Board. Proceal~reand power$.
9. (1) Courts and Boards shall, subject to the provisiolls Proceal~reand power$. of this Act, follow such procedure as may be prescribed.
`(2)` Courts and Boards shall have the same powers as are vested in Courts under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, when trying a suit in respect of the following matters :-
- (a) enforcing the attendance of ally person and exa~nining him on oath ;
- ( b ) compelling the production of documents and materia.1 objects; and
(c) issuing comrnissioils for the exaininatioii of witnesses;
and shall have such further powers as may be prescribed; art41 every inquiry or investigation by a Court or Board shall bc deemed t o be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of LV of 1880. sections 193 alid 228 of the Indian Penal Code.
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Trade Disputes.
PO. (1) If the services of the chairman or of any other independent member of a Court or Board cease to be available at any time for the purposes of the Court or Board, the app-ointing authority shall in the case of a chairman, and may in the case uf any othor member, appoint another independent person to fill the vacancy, and the proceedings shall be continued before the Court or Board so re-constituted.
~ i l l h g `of` vacancies. - -
(2) Where the Court or Board consists of one person only and his services cease to be available as aforesaid, the appointing authority shall appoint another independent person in his place, and the proceedings shall be continued before the peroon so appointed.
`11.` The report of a CouFt or Board shall be in writing anti shall be signed by all the inembers of the Court or Board :
perm or report.
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent any member or a Court or Board from recording a millute of dissent from a report or from any recommendatiov 111ade therein.
`12.` (1) The final and any interim report of a Court or Ijoard, together with any minute of dissent recorded therewith, shall, as soon as possible after its receipt by the authority by which the Court or Board was appointed, be published by that authority in such manner as it thinks fit.
Publiaation of rpsnlts of inquiry.
(2) The said authority may publish or cause to be published from time to time, in such manner as such authority thinks fit, ally information obtained, or conclusions arrived at, by the Court or Board as the result or in the course of its inquiry 01. investigation.
Source: India Code