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(1) The Land Board and the Land Tribunal constituted under this Act shall have all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the law for the time being in force relating to civil procedure, in respect of the following matters, namely: - (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath; (b) requiring the discovery and production of any document; (c) receiving evidence on affidavit; (d) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or for local investigation; and (e) any other matter which may be prescribed. 184 *[ (2) The Land Board shall have superintendence over the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority, and the Land Board may ---- (a) call for returns from the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority; (b) make and issue general rules and prescribe forms for regulating the practice and proceedings of the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority; (c) prescribe forms in which books, entries and accounts shall be kept by the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority;] (3) Where in any proceeding before the Land Tribunal a question arises whether a person is a small-holder or not or whether a person is or is not a tenant, *[or whether the right, title and interest of the landowner and the intermediaries, if any, in respect of any holding, have or have not vested in the Government under section 80] it shall be competent for the Land Tribunal to decide the question. *[(4) If any question arises as to whether any land is exempted under section 91, the question shall be decided by the Land Board in such manner and having regard to such matters as may be prescribed, and the decision of the Land Board shall be final.] Appeal to appellate authority *[ 112. (1) The Government or any person aggrieved by any order of the Land Tribunal under sub-section (2) of section 7, sub-section (3) of section 8A, section 15, section 29, sub-section (2) of section 32 (where the amount of arrears of rent claimed exceeds five hundred rupees), section 37, section 53, sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of section 54, sub-section (3) of section 55, sub-section (5) of section 74, section 80H, section 81, sub-section (2) of section 85, section 88B, sub-section (4) of section 100, section 116 or section 116A may appeal against such order within such time as may be prescribed to the appellate authority having jurisdiction as determined under sub-section (3) of section 109A. (2) The appellate authority may admit an appeal presented after the expiration of the period prescribed under sub-section (1) if it is satisfied that the appellant had sufficient cause for not presenting it within that period. (3) In deciding appeals under sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall exercise all the powers which a court has and follow the same procedure which a court follows in deciding an appeal against the decree of an original court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908). (4) Where there has been any modification in an appeal from any decision or order of the Land Tribunal, such decision or order shall be modified accordingly.] ________________________________________________________________________ * Amended vide Act No.1 of 1981 w.e.f 1-4-1981vide Notification published in the Extraordinary Gazette No.32 dated 30.03.1981. 185 Revision by High Court