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(1) When the accounts and offices of Market Committee are inspected, officers, or the affairs of such Committee are inquired into, under section 39, or the ant and proceeding of such committee are examined under section 42, all officers, members of servants, and members of such committee shall furnish such information in Market their possession in regard to the accounts and offices or affairs or proceedings Committee to furnish of such committee as the Director, or the officers authorised by the Director, as infox~nation to the case may be, may require. the Director, authorised (2) The Director or any officer inspecting the accounts and offices or officers inquiring into the affairs of Market Committee under section 39, or the State and State Government examining the proceedings of such committee under section 42, Government. shall, for the purposes of such inspection, inquiry of examination, have the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the code of civil procedure 1908, while trying a suit in respect of the following matters, namely :- (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of any officer, servant or member of the Market Committee and examining him on oath ; (b) the discovery and production by any officer, servant or member of the Market Committee of any document or other material object producible as evidence ; and (c) the reception of evidence on affidavits. (3) Any officer exercising the powers conferred by sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purposes of Section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.