Appellate Tribunal procedure: not bound by civil procedure and guided by natural justice with civil court powers.

The Appellate Tribunal is not bound by the Code of Civil Procedure and must be guided by principles of natural justice while regulating its own procedure. It possesses specified civil court powers - including summoning witnesses, compelling document production, receiving affidavit evidence, requisitioning public records subject to evidence law, issuing commissions, and dealing with defaults and ex parte matters - and its orders are enforceable as if they were civil court decrees; proceedings are deemed judicial and the Tribunal is treated as a civil court for certain penal and criminal procedure provisions.

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