Section 20: Powers of adjudzcating officer and Appellate Board zn relatzon to holding enquzry under tins Act

( 1) The adjudicating officer and the Appellate Board shalt, while holding an enquiry, have all the power~ of a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, l 908 (Central Act 5 of 1908 ), while trying ~ a suit, in respect of the follo\ving matters, namely:-

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e) summoning and enforcing the attend,tncc of witnesses ;

requiring the discovery and production of any document;

requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office;

receiving evidence on affidavits; and issuing commissions for the examination of witnrsses or documents.

( 2) The adjudicatin~ officer or the .A.ppellate lloard s.hall, while exe1 4 ci~ing any power under th1s Act, be deemed to be a C1v1l court for the purposes of scltions 345 and 346 vf the Code of CrJminaJ Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974).