(1) The Central Government shall determine the nature and categories of the officers and oth«r employees required to assist the Tribunal in the discharge of its functions and provide the Tribunal with such officers and other employees as it may think fit.
(2) The salaries and allowances and conditions of service of the officers and other employees of the Tribunal shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) The officers and other employees of the Tribunal shall itischnrg'.' their functions under the general superintendence ol the Chairman.
56. The Chairman may make provisions as to the distribution ot the business of the Tribunal among its Benches.
57. (I) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the Tribunal shall exercise, on and trom the date with effect from which it is established under section 46, all the jurisdiction, powers and authority exercisable Immediately before that date by all courts (except the Supreme Court) In relation to—
(a) all appeals from the orders of the Rent Authority under this Act;
(b) any other matter arising from the provisions of this Act;
(c) review of its own orders and decisions.
(2) The Tribunal may, either on its own motion or on application of any of the parties and after notice to the parties and after hearing -,uch of them as it may desire to be heard, call for records of any case pending before the Rent Authority under this Act, and either itself try the case or give direction for disposal of the case by such Rent Authority.
(3) The Tribunal shall have powers to effect a conciliation between the parties in any case pending before it.
58. The Tribunal shall have, and exercise, the same jurisdiction, powers and authority in respect of contempt of itself or of the Rent Authority under this Act as a High Court ha& and may exercise and, for (his purpose, the prov'sions of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, shell have effect subject to the modification thai—
(a) the references therein to a High Court shall be constiued as including a reference to the Tribunal;
(b) In section 15 of the said Act, the references to the Advocate- General shall be ronstrued as a reference to the Attomev-General or tfce Solicitor-General or the Additional Solicitor-General;
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(c) in sections 6, 10, 11A, 12, 15 and 17 of the said Act, the references therein to subordinate Court or Court subordinate, shall be construed as including a reference to Rent Authority under this Act;
and
(d) the references, in section, 14 of the said Act, to Chie£ Justice, Judge or Judges shall be construed as including a reference to Chairman, Member or Members.