Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949

Procedure of the Tribunal.

4.—(1) The Tribunal shall have power to do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) to regulate its own procedure and appoint the times and places of its sittings;

(b) to take evidence on oath and for that purpose to administer oaths;

(c) to allow any person or persons to be present at sittings of the Tribunal and to exclude any person or persons from such sittings.

(2) Where the Tribunal cannot reach a unanimous decision on any matter referred to it under this Act, the decision of the Tribunal shall be—

(a) where two of its members are in agreement, in accordance with the opinion of such two members, or

(b) in default of agreement between two of its members, in accordance with the opinion of the chairman.

(3) The decision of the Tribunal on any matter referred to it under this Act shall be given in writing signed by the chairman.

(4) The Tribunal shall have all such powers, rights, and privileges for enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath and for compelling the production of documents as are vested in the High Court or a Judge thereof in respect of the trial of an action, and a summons signed by the Chairman of the Tribunal shall be equivalent to and have the like effect as a formal process issued by the High Court for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or compelling the production of documents.

(5) If any person on being duly summoned under this section to attend as a witness before the Tribunal makes default in so attending or, being in attendance before the Tribunal as a witness, refuses to take an oath required by the chairman to be taken by him or refuses to produce any document in his power or control required by the chairman to be produced by him or refuses to answer any questions required by the chairman to be answered by him, the chairman may certify the offence of such person to the High Court and that Court may, after such inquiry as it thinks proper to make, punish or take steps for the punishment of that person in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the said Court.