(1) In exercising the functions conferred on him by or under this Act, the Registrar, the arbitrator (substituted vide Notification No. F.14(31)/LA-2004/16 dated 17/01/2005) or any other person deciding a dispute under section 70 and the liquidator of a co-operative society or person entitled to audit, inspect or hold an inquiry and the Tribunal shall have all the powers of a civil court, while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) in respect of the following matters, namely -
(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;
(c) proof of facts by affidavits; and
(d) issuing commissions for examination of witness.
(2) In the case of an affidavit, the Registrar or any officer appointed by him, the arbitrator (substituted vide Notification No. F.14(31)/LA-2004/16 dated 17/01/2005), the liquidator or the Tribunal, as the case may be, may administer the oath to the deponent.
Indemnity.
134. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Registrar or any person subordinate to him or acting on his authority in respect of anything in good faith done or purporting to have been done under this Act.
Service rules for employees of co-operative societies.
135. The Government shall as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, direct all co-operative societies or class of co-operative societies to frame service rules for their employees and get them approved from the committee within a period of three hundred and sixty five days.
CHAPTER - XIV RULES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Power to delegate.
136. The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that any power exercisable by it under this Act, except the power to make rules, may also be exercised by such officer as may be mentioned therein in such cases and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therein.
Power to make rules.