Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Government to hear all of this Act- The decision shall be final. Save as otherwise provided, sha’i appoint an appeal arising < of Appellate the State Appellate Authority out of the provisions Authority (2; The person or persons appointed by the State . Government as Appellate Authority shall have the qualification of a District Judge, or of becoming a member of the z\ssam Board of Revenue constituted ur.der the Assam Boards of Revenue Act, 1962, (Assam Act-XXl of 1962). The appointment shall be on such terms and conditions as the State Government mav decide. ■ 72- (1) The duties and powers of the Appellate ; follows:— Authority shall be as (a; (b) •5- to hear and decide ap orders of the Authority ; to decide and hear appeals in respect of such other matters and exercise such other powers as may be entrusted to and conferred upon it by the State Govern ment in accordance this Act- with the provisions of Appellate Authority month from the date of the order appealed against. The time required fir taking out copies of the order shall be excluded. The Appellate Authority may, however, in its discretion condone such delay in filing appeal for sufficient reasons. (2> shall All appeals to the be filed within a order appealed against. The Procure 7 '• (I) The Appellate Authority sb,all conduct its ®f w-rka.g procedjnes in the prescribed manner after giving Ar’i -bX- the opposite party or any one interested in the Auu.., iiy. order appealed against and give opportunity of being heard- 5 i THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRA-ORDINARY, NOV. 14 , 1987 939 (2) The Appellate Authority may, at anytim e call for any extract from any proceeding of the State Government or Authority and call for any return or statement or report concerning or conn oted with any matter with which the Authority has been authorised to deal- (3) The Appellate Authority shall have all- the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of taking evidence on oath or enforcing the atten dance of witnesses including the parties interested or any of them and compelling the production of documents and material objection if considered necessary. (4) The Appellate Authority in its discretion may make any orders regarding the cost to be paid by any of the parties to the proceeding and the Appellate Authority shall have full power to deter mine by whom or out of what property and to what extent such costs are to be paid and the Authority shall be bound to execute the orders of the Appellate Authority in accordance with the directions, if any. contained in the order and such costs or amounts awarded by the Appellate Autho - rity shall be realised as arrears pt land revenue. Place vvh etc Appellate Authoi ity may 'it. Right to appear by recognised agent. 74, The Appellate Authority may sit either at the Head Quarter of the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority or at any other place within the local limits of his jurisdiction whieh he may deem convenient for the consideration and decision of any matter before the Appellate Autho rity.