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Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1981 (29 of 1981) Section 5

Title: Power of Authorised Inquiring Authorityto Enforce Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents

State: Karnataka

Year: 1981

.....Act 38 of 1959) or any corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act 1970 (Central Act 5 of 1970) or any corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (Central Act 40 of 1980),- (a) to produce any book of account or other documents which the Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India, the subsidiary bank or the corresponding new bank claims to be of a confidential nature, or (b) to make any such book or document a part of the record of the proceedings of the departmental inquiry, or (c) to give inspection of any such book or document, if produced, to any party before it or to any other person. (3) Every process issued by an authorised inquiring authority for the attendance of any witnessor for the production of any document shall be served and executed through the District Judge within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the witness or other person, on whom the process is to be served or executed, voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain, and, for the purposes of taking.....

Departmental Enquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnessesand Production of Documents) Act, 1972 Section 5

Title: Power of Authorised Inquiring Authority to Enforce Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....authorised inquiring authority shall not compel the Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India, any subsidiary bank as defined in clause (k) of section 2 of the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, or any corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 offices under the control of the Comptroller Auditor-General on the basis of initial and subsidiary accounts received by them from the treasuries. This system worked fairly well when governmental business was limited. With the increase in the volume and variety of government business and the continual step-up of developmental outlays the system has proved inadequate to the administration's tasks. (3) The scheme of separation of accounts from audit is to be implemented in the Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Industry and Civil Supplies from 1st April. 1976. The remaining Ministries will also be covered gradually by the 1st October. 1976, The taking over of accounting functions from the Comptroller and Auditor-General involve the transfer of a large number of employees of the.....

Railways Act, 1989 Section 180B

Title: Power of Officer Authorized to Inquire

State: Central

Year: 1989

Section 180B - Power of officer authorized to inquire 1[Section 180B - Power of officer authorized to inquire While making an inquiry, the officer authorised shall have power to.-- (i) summon and enforce the attendance of any person and record his statement; (ii) require the discovery and production of any document; (iii) requisition any public record or copy thereof from any office, authority or person; (iv) enter and search any premises or person and seize any property or document which may be relevant to the subject-matter of the inquiry. ___________________ 1.Inserted Sections 180A to 180G by the Railways (Second Amendment) Act, 2003.

Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 Section 36D

Title: Powers Which May Be Exercised by the Commission Inquiring into an Unfair Trade Practice

State: Central

Year: 1969

.....time specified by the Commission as may be necessary to ensure that the trade practice is no longer prejudicial to the public interest or to the interest of a consumer or consumers generally, and in any such case, if the Commission is satisfied that necessary steps have been taken within the time so specified, it may decide not to make any order under this section in respect of that trade practice. (3) No order shall be made under sub-section (1) in respect of any trade practice which is expressly authorised by any law for the time being in force. ________________________ 1. The word "and" omitted by Act 58 of 1991, section 16 w.r.e.f. 27-9-1991. 2. Inserted by Act 58 of 1991, section 16 w.r.e.f. 27-9-1991.

Coroners Act, 1871 Section 8

Title: Jurisdiction to Inquire into Deaths

State: Central

Year: 1871

When a Coroner {Subs. by Act 10 of 1881, s.5, for "is informed"} [has reason to believe] that the death of any person has been caused by accident, homicide, suicide, or suddenly by means unknown, or that any person being a prisoner has died in prison, and that the body is lying within the place for which the Coroner is so appointed, the Coroner shall inquire into the cause of death. Every such inquiry shall be deemed a judicial proceeding within the meaning of section 193 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 362

Title: Power of Court of Investigation to Inquire into Charges Against Master, Mates and Engineers

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Any court making a formal investigation into a shipping casualty may inquire into any charge of in competency or misconduct arising, in the course of the investigation, against any master, mate or engineer, as well as into any charge of a wrongful act or default on his part causing the shipping casualty. (2) In every case in which any such charge, whether of in competency or misconduct, or of a wrongful act or default, as aforesaid, arises against any master, mate or engineer, in the course of an investigation, the court shall, before the commencement of the inquiry, cause to be furnished to him a statement of the case upon which the inquiry has been directed.

Indian Iron and Steel Company Acquisition of Shares Act 1976 Section 7A

Title: Power of Commissioner to Inquire into Disputes as to Persons Entitled to Any Amount

State: Central

Year: 1976

.....is unable to determine as to who is the person entitled to the amount and considers that the matter could more appropriately be dealt with by the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the registered office of the Company is situated, he may refer such dispute to the said court, whose decision thereon shall be final: Provided further that nothing contained herein shall affect the liability of any person, who may receive the whole or any part of the amount allowed under this Act, to pay the same to the person lawfully entitled thereto.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 1977 (39 of 1977), Section 4 (13-10-77).

Murshidabad Estate Administration Act, 1933 Section 12

Title: Power to Inquire into Consideration for Leases, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1933

The Manage may inquire into the sufficiency of the consideration for which any lease, settlement, grant, mortgage, charge or lien was given and whether it was given in contravention of the conditions of the Murshidabad Act, 1891, (15 of 1891) and if satisfied that the consideration was insufficient or that such lease, settlement, grant,15 of 1891. mortgage, charge or lien was given in contravention of the said Act may, by order in writing, set aside or modify such lease, settlement, grant, mortgage, charge or lien ; and any such order, subject to the appeal provided in section 13, shall have the force of a decree of a competent Civil Court and be enforceable as such.

Inland Vessels Act, 1917 Section 34

Title: Power of Court of Investigation to Inquire into Charges of Incompetency or Misconduct

State: Central

Year: 1917

(1) Any Court making an investigation under section 33 may inquire into any charge of in competency or misconduct arising in the course of the investigation against any master, engineer or engine-driver, or any person holding a certificate granted under Chapter III, as well as into any charge of a wrongful act or default on his part causing any wreck, abandonment, damage, casualty, or loss referred to in section 32. (2) In every case in which any such charge arises against any master, engineer or engine-driver, or any person holding a certificate granted under Chapter III in the course of an investigation, the Court shall, before the commencement of the inquiry into the charge, cause to be furnished to him a copy of the report or of any statement of the case upon which the investigation has been directed.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....