(1) The State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may appoint an officer or an authority as appellate authority, with the power to decide appeals (hereinafter referred to as the appellate authority), against the orders of the competent authority:
Provided that the State Government may appoint as appellate authority more than one officer or authority and distribute the work among them in the manner it may deem fit.
(2) Any person aggrieved by any order of the competent authority under this Act, may, within a period of the thirty days of the communication of the order to him, prefer an appeal to an appellate authority in such form and manner as may be prescribed.
(3) The appellate authority, after giving an opportunity to be heard to the parties and to the competent authority, may pass such order as it may deem fit, either confirming, modifying or setting aside the order of the competent authority, and record its reasons, in writing, and the order of the appellate authority shall be final, unless revised by the State Government under Section 34.
(4) In discharging its functions, the appellate authority shall have all the powers under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908) of a civil court while deciding an appeal.
34. The State Government may, either suo moto, or, on an application from any party aggrieved by any order within sixty days of the date of the communication to him of such order, call for the record of any case disposed of by the competent authority, or the appellate authority, for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the Appellate authority and appeals.
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correctness, legality or propriety of any proceedings or of any order made therein, and pass such order in relation thereto as it may deem fit :
Provided that no order adverse to any person shall be passed without giving him an opportunity to show cause against such proposed order:
Provided further that no revision application shall be entertained when an appeal has been or could have been filed against the order.
35. No civil court shall have any jurisdiction to entertain or decide any question relating to matters arising under this Act or the rules made there under.
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