Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) After examining the claims with reference of c S * t o . ^e priorities set out in the Schedule, the Com missioner shall fix a date on or before which every claiment shall file the proof of his claim : THE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, SEPT. 25, 1990 791 (2) Notice calling upon the claimants to file proof of one’s claims to the Ccmmissicner shall be published in the Official Gazettee and shall be put in advertisement in < ne issue respectively of: — (i) any daily newspaper in English language having circulation in the major part of the country ; (ii) any daily newspaper in Assamese langu age; and (iii) any daily newspaper in other regional language as the Commissioner may con sider suitable- Not less than fourteen days’ notice from the last of the dates of such advertisement cr publication shall be allowed for filing proof of ihe claimant- (3) Claimant who d< es not file the proof of his claim within the time specified by the Commis sioner, shall not b' considered for any payment to be made by the Commissioner- (4) The Commissioner shall, after such in vestigation as may, in his opin on, bo necessary and after giving the Company an opportunity of refu ting his claim and after giving the claimant a i a- scnable opportunity of being heard, by order in writing admit »r reject ti e claim in whole or in part. (5) The Commissioner shall also decide any dispute as tc the person or persons who is or who are entitled to the amount and any dispute as to who are tl e legal representative of any deceased claimant. f6) The Commissioner sh all have the power to regulate his own procedure in all matters ari sing out t f the discharge of his functions, including the pi ace or places at which he will held his 7 92 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY SEPT. 25, 1990 sittings and shall, for the purpose of making an in vestigation under this Act, have the same powers as are vested in a Civil Court under the Code of ’ °f 1 9 0 8 Civil Procedure, 1908, in respect of the following matters, namely (a) the summoning and enforcing the at tendance of any witness and exami ning him on Oath ; (.b) the discovery and production of any document or other material object pro ducible as evidence ; (c) the reception of evidences on affi davits ; (d) the issuing of any commission for the examination of witness. 45 of 1860 (.7) Any investigation before the Commis sioner shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of Sections 193 and 228 of the 2 of 1974 Indian Penal Cede, and the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purposes of Section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Cri minal Procedure, 1973. (8; A claimant, who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner, may prefer an appeal against such decision to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the undertaking of the Government Com pany is situated : Provided that where a person who is a Judge of High Court is appointed to be the Commissioner sue;, appeal shall lie to the High Court at Guwahati, and such appeal shall be heard and disposed of by not less than two Judges of that High Court. THE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY , SEPT. 25, 1990 793 D is burs em ent