Power to summon: officers may compel attendance and production of documents in inquiries treated as judicial proceedings. The proper officer under the Act is empowered to summon any person whose attendance is considered necessary to give evidence or to produce documents or other things in any inquiry, exercising the same procedural mechanisms as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure; such inquiries are classified as judicial proceedings, attracting the penal consequences associated with false evidence and related offences.
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Power to summon: officers may compel attendance and production of documents in inquiries treated as judicial proceedings.
The proper officer under the Act is empowered to summon any person whose attendance is considered necessary to give evidence or to produce documents or other things in any inquiry, exercising the same procedural mechanisms as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure; such inquiries are classified as judicial proceedings, attracting the penal consequences associated with false evidence and related offences.
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