Section 111. Procedure before Appellate Tribunal.-
(1) The Appellate Tribunal shall not, while disposing
of any proceedings before it or an appeal before it, be bound by the procedure
laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, but shall be guided by the
principles of natural justice and subject to the other provisions of this Act
and the rules made thereunder, the Appellate Tribunal shall have power to
regulate its own procedure.
(2) The Appellate Tribunal shall, for the purposes of
discharging its functions under this Act, have the same powers as are vested in
a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while trying a suit in
respect of the following matters, namely:-
(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any
person and examining him on oath;
(b) requiring the discovery and production of
documents;
(c) receiving evidence on affidavits;
(d) subject to the provisions of sections 123 and 124
of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), requisitioning any public record
or document or a copy of such record or document from any office;
(e) issuing commissions for the examination of
witnesses or documents;
(f) dismissing a representation for default or
deciding it ex parte;
(g) setting aside any order of dismissal of any
representation for default or any order passed by it ex parte; and
(h) any other matter which may be prescribed.
(3) Any order made by the Appellate Tribunal may be
enforced by it in the same manner as if it were a decree made by a court in a
suit pending therein, and it shall be lawful for the Appellate Tribunal to send
for execution of its orders to the court within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction,-
(a) in the case of an order against a company, the
registered office of the company is situated; or
(b) in the case of an order against any other person,
the person concerned voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally
works for gain.
(4) All proceedings before the Appellate Tribunal
shall be deemed to be judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193
and 228, and for the purposes of section 196 of the Indian Penal Code, and the
Appellate Tribunal shall be deemed to be civil court for the purposes of
section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
