Procedure of Appellate Tribunal: tribunal follows natural justice and regulates procedure while exercising civil court powers.

The Appellate Tribunal may regulate its own procedure subject to the Act and rules and must follow the principles of natural justice. It has the same powers as a civil court for summoning witnesses, enforcing attendance, compelling discovery and production of documents, receiving affidavit evidence, requisitioning public records subject to evidence law, issuing commissions, disposing of representations ex parte and setting aside such orders, and may enforce its orders as if they were court decrees by sending them for execution to the appropriate local court; proceedings are deemed judicial and the Tribunal is treated as a civil court for certain penal and procedural provisions.

---

---

---