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(I) The Appellate Authority shall conduct its proceedings in the prescribed manner after giving the opposite party or any person interested in the order appealed against an opportunity of bieng hear. (2) The Appellate Authority may, at any time, call for any record of any proceeding of the State Government or the Authority and call for and return or statement or report concerning or connected with a Py matter with which the authority has been authorised to deal. (3) The Appellate Authority shall have 111 the powers of a civil court for the purpose of taking evidence on oath and of enforcing the attendance of witness including the parties interested and compelling the production of documents and other things if considered necessary. (4) The Appellate Authority in its direction may make any order regarding the cost to be paid by any of the parties to the proceedings and the Appellate Authority shall have full powers to determine 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 direction, if any, contained in the order, and such costs or amounts awarded by the Appellate A utbo- rity shall be realised as arrears of land revenue. (5) The decision of tbe Appellate Authority shall be final.