(a) No person shall be required to attend in person unless he resides with in the local limits of the canal officer’s jurisdiction, or 65
(b) Without such limits but at a place less than fifty miles or, where there is a railway communication or other established public conveyance for five sixth of the distance between the place where he resides and the place where he is required to attend, is less than two hundred miles from such place.
16. No person shall be required to attend in person who is exempt from personal appearance under section 132 or section 133 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908.
17. Diet money to be paid, to persons required to attend an inquiry shall include the travelling expences, if any, which such persons may have to incur. These payments shall be made at such rates and In accordance with such principles as are laid down in the rules for the time being in force regulating such payment to witnesses in proceedings before a revenue officer held under the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 1959.
18. Every notice shall be in duplicate, and shall be signed and sealed by the officer issuing it or by such person as he empowers In this behalf, and it shall specify the time and place at which the person summoned Is required to attend, and also whether he is required to give evidence or to produce a document.
19. Every notice may be served either by tendering or delivering a copy thereof or sending such copy by post in a cover registered under the Indian Post Office Act, 1889, to the person on whom it is to be served or his authorized agent or, if service In the manner aforesaid cannot be made, by affixing a copy thereof at his last known place of residence or at some place of public resort in the village or villages to which the inquiry relates.
20. If any party to an inquiry before a canal officer does not appear on the date fixed for hearing, the case may be heard and determined in his absence or may be dismissed in default.