(1) Every reference in respect of matters mentioned in section 47 shall be made by the Government to the Tribunal by means of an application. Such applications shall be accompanied by as many copies thereof as may be required for service on the parties concerned.
(2) Whenever any application in respect of any such matter is made to the Tribunal, it shall endorse on the original application the date of receipt and cause it to be registered in a register kept for that purpose.
(3) The Tribunal shall thereupon cause a notice together with a copy of the application, if available, to be delivered or sent by registered post to the parties concerned and whenever necessary by affixing it at the site giving intimation of the application and where no copy of the application is available, appointing the time and place for inspecting the same and specifying a date for submitting a written statement in reply, if any, and for serving copies on the other parties and calling upon them to appear before the Tribunal at the time and on the date specified in the notice.
The notice shall also state, that, if the parties concerned do not appear before the Tribunal either in person or through his Solicitor, or Pleader or the other authorised agent on the date specified in the notice or any subsequent date to which the hearing may be adjourned, the Tribunal shall hear and decide the matter ex-parte.
(4) If on the date fixed for hearing or any other subsequent day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the applicant does not appear either in person or through his Solicitor, Advocate, 2 / 10 Pleader or other authorised agent when the application is called for hearing, the Tribunal may dismiss the application or may decide it on merits after hearing the party present or his Solicitor, Advocate, Pleader or other authorised agent, if present.
(5) If on the date fixed for hearing or any other subsequent date to which the hearing may be adjourned, any person who has been served with a notice under sub-rule (3) does not appear in person or through his Solicitor, Advocate, Pleader or other authorised agent when the application is called for hearing the Tribunal may decide the same on merits after hearing the applicant, his Solicitor, Pleader or authorised agent.
(6) If any of the person referred to in sub-rule (5) was absent at the date of hearing, either preliminary or final, and the application was heard and decided ex-parte, the party concerned may within a period of thirty [days] apply for restoration of the application and if the party satisfies the Tribunal that he had no notice of the date of hearing or that he was prevented by any sufficient cause from appearing when the application was called for hearing, the Tribunal may restore the application to its file; provided that where the other party had appeared, such party shall be given notice and an opportunity of being heard before the order for restoration of application is made.
(7) When the hearing of an application is complete, the Tribunal shall pronounce its decision.
(8) Every decision of the Tribunal shall be in writing and an authenticated copy thereof shall be furnished to the Board. The Tribunal shall, in the decision, state at the end whether the application is dismissed or allowed wholly or in part and mention the relief, if any, granted to the applicant or the parties concerned.
(9) A copy of every decision of the Tribunal under this rule shall be transmitted to the Board for being forwarded to the concerned Revenue Officer. Every such decision, in so far as it creates or modifies any right in respect of land, shall be recorded in the Record of Rights.
(10) The Tribunal shall hold its sittings at such time and place as it may determine.
(11) The Tribunal may, if sufficient cause is shown, at any stage of the hearing of the application, grant time to the parties, or to any of them and may from time to time adjourn the hearing of the application.