Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Commission shall have power to administer Powers of oaths, and shall have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Com- Coile of Civil Procedure, 1908, for the purposes of takino mission, eidence on oath, enforcing the attendance of any person hon it considers necessary to examine, compelling the production of documents and issuing commissions or letters of request for the examination of witnesses, and shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter Price-Indian, anna 1; English, 2d. 2 The Corporation of Calcutta (Investigation Commission) Act, 1948. [West Ben. Act (Section 6.) XXXV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and any reference in the said Oh,apter to the presiding officer of a Court shall be deemed to include a reference to the Chairman of the Commission. (.2) I£ it appears to the Commission that it is necessary to e:s:amine any accounts or documents, or to investigate any particular matter which it cannot itself conveniently examine or investigate, the Commission may authorise any person qualified in its opinion to make such examination or investiga- tion to examine such accounts or documents or to investigate such particular matter and to interrogate for that purpose any person having charge or custody of such accounts or docu- ments, or having knowledge of such particular matter and to make a report to the Commission; any person having charge or custody of such accounts or documents shall be bound to produce them to the person so authorised and to give such person any information in respect thereof which the person so authorised may require; and any person having knowledge of such particular matter shall be bound to give to the person so authorised any information in respect thereof which such verson may require. The Commission may make such use of the report as it thinks fit. (3) (a) The Commission may require the Corporation of Calcutta or any person who is or was a Councillor or an Alderman or any officer or servant of the Corporation of Calcutta to furnish any return, document, plan, estimate, statement, account, statistics, information or report and the Corporation of Calcutta or such Councillor or Alderman or such officer or servant shall be bound to comply with such requisition without delay. (b) The powers conferred by this sub-section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the powers conferred by sub-section (Z) and sub-section (). (4) The Commissioners and all persons authorised by the Commission under sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 860. Procedure