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Powers of Employees’ Insurance Court.

Powers of Employees’ Insurance Court :

Section – 78,. (.1) The Employees’ Insurance Court shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses, compelling the discovery and production of documents and ma­terial objects, administering oath and recording evidence and such Court shall be deemed to be a Civil Court within the meaning of[section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)].

(2) The Employees’ Insurance Court shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed by rules made by the [State] Government.

(3) All costs incidental to any proceeding before an Employees’ Insurance Court shall, subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf by the [State] Government, be in the discretion of the Court.

(4) An order of the Employees’ Insurance Court shall be enforceable as if it were a decree passed in a suit by a Civil Court.