(1) This Act may be called the Tripura Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1974.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Tripura.
2. The provisions of this Act shall apply to every departmental inquiry made in relation to---
(1) persons appointed to public services or posts in connection with the affairs of the State of Tripura ;
(2) persons who, having been appointed to any public service or post in connection with the affairs of the State of Tripura, are in service or pay of,---
(a) any local authority in the State of Tripura,
(b) any corporation established by or under a State Act and owned or controlled by the State Government,
(c) any Government company within the meaning of section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, in which not less than fiftyone per cent. of the paid-up share capital is held by the State Government or any company which is a subsidiary of such Government company, Short title and extent.
Departmental inquiries to which the Act shall apply.
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(d) any society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, which is subject to the control of the State Government.
3. For the purposes of this Act,---
(1) "departmental inquiry" means an inquiry held under and in accordance with---
(a) any law made by the Tripura Legislative Assembly or any rule made thereunder, or
(b) any rule made under the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution of India or continued to be in force in Tripura with effect from the appointed day notified under clause
(b) of section 2 of the North Eastern Areas ( Re-organisation) Act, 1971.
(2) "inquiring authority" means an officer or authority appointed by the State Government or by any officer or authority subordinate to that Government to hold a departmental inquiry and includes any officer or authority who is empowered by or under any law or rule for the time being in force to hold such inquiry ;
(3) "lack of integrity" includes bribery or corruption.