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Powers of authorities appointed under section 15.—Every authority appointed under sub-section (1) of section 15 shall have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the purpose of taking evidence and of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents, and every such authority shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of section 195 and of 1[Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)]. Where an authority passed an order directing a party to produce the documents asked for by another party, the order would be liable to be quashed when the order was in the form of a bold directive to the party to produce the documents asked for by another party and it did not contain any recital about the documents which was to be produced and about their relevancy to the controversy which the authority was called upon to decide; Newspapers Ltd, Allahabad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 1982 Lab I C 776.