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Any Canal Officer empowered under this Act to conduct any inquiry may exercise all such powers connected with summoning and examining of witnesses and the production of documents as are conferred on civil courts by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908; and every such inquiry shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code. suits barred in certain cases. Excavation of wells in lands under irrigable command of canal to be intimated. Rights in tank bed lands, fish- ing and plying of vessels in tanks etc., controlled or main- tained by Appropriate Authority to vest in Appropriate Authority. Recovery of cost of repairing damage when offender is unascer- tainable. Prohibition of mining, or quarry- ing operations. Power to summon and examine witnesses. V of