Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where the State Government is of opinion that for the purposes of any departmental inquiry it is necessary to summon as witnesses, or call for any document from any class or category of persons, it may, by notifica- tion in the Official Gazette, authorise the inquiring authority to exercise the power specified in section 5 in relation to any person within such class or category and thereupon the inquiring authority may exercise such power at any stage of the departmental inquiry. (2) The power conferred on the State Government by sub-section (1) may also be exercised by such authority, not being an authority inferior to the appointing authority in relation to the person against whom the depart- mental inquiry is being held, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. 21 of 1860 81 of 1971 Definitions Power of State Gov- e r n m e n t to autho- rise the ex- ercise of powers sp- ecified in section 5. 3