Section 78: Powers of Employees’ Insurance Court

The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948State Act of Bihar · Act 34 of 1948

(1) The Employees’ Insurance Court shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses, compelling the discovery and production of documents and material objects, administering oath and recording evidence and such Court shall be deemed to be a Civil Court within the meaning of 1[section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).]

(2) The Employees’ Insurance Court shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed by rules made by the State Government.

(3) All costs incidental to any proceeding before an Employees’ Insurance Court shall, subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf by the State Government, be in the discretion of the Court.

(4) An order of the Employees’ Insurance Court shall be enforceable as if it were a decree passed in a suit by a Civil Court.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
Section	78
Marginal note	Powers of Employees’ Insurance Court
Jurisdiction	State of Bihar
Status	In force as published by the source

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