LawgistThe Guardians and Wards Act
46Reports by Collectors and subordinate Courts
(1) The Court may call upon the Collector, or upon any court subordinate to the Court, for a report on any matter arising in any proceeding under this Act and treat the report as evidence.
(2) For the purpose of preparing the report the Collector or the Judge of the subordinate Court as the case may be, shall make such inquiry as he deems necessary, and may for the pruposes of the inquiry exercise any power of compelling the attendance of a witness to give evidence or produce a document which is conferred on a Court by the 1Code of Civil Procedure (14 of 1882).
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1. See now the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act 5 of 1908).
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
- 43 Orders for regulating conduct or proceedings of guardians, and enforcement of those orders
- 44 Penalty for removal of ward from jurisdiction
- 45 Penalty for contumacy
- 46 Reports by Collectors and subordinate Courts
- 47 Orders appealable
- 48 Finality of other orders
- 49 Costs
- 50 Power of High Court to make rules
- 51 Applicability of Act to guardians already appointed by Court
- 52 [Repealed.]
- 53 [Repealed.]
