Section 41: Certain provisions of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 to apply
The Workmen’s Compensation Rules, 1924State Rules of Punjab · 1923
Save as otherwise expressly provided in the Act or these rules the following provisions of the first Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, namely, those contained in Order V, Rule 9 to 13 and 15 to 30; Order IX; Order XII, Rules 3 to 10; Order XVI, Rules 2 to 21; Order XVII, and Order XXIII, Rules 1 and 2, shall apply to proceedings before Commissioners, in so far as they may be applicable thereto:
Provided that: -
(a) for the purpose of facilitating the application of the said provisions the Commissioner may construct them with such alternations not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt them to the matter before him;
(b) the commissioner may, for sufficient reasons, proceed otherwise than in accordance with the said provision, if he is satisfied that the interests of the parties will not thereby be prejudiced.