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(1) Any person aggrieved by an order passed by the Appellate Tribunal
may file an appeal to the High Court and the High Court may admit such appeal, if it is satisfied that
the case involves a substantial question of law.
(2) An appeal under sub-section (1) shall be filed within a period of one hundred and eighty days
from the date of receipt of the order appealed against by the aggrieved person and it shall be in such
form and verified in such manner, as may be prescribed.
(3) Irrespective of sub-section (2), the High Court may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the
period specified in the said sub-section, if it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not filing the
appeal within such period.
(4) Where the High Court is satisfied that a substantial question of law is involved in any case, it
shall formulate that question and the appeal shall be heard only on the question so formulated, and the
respondents shall, at the hearing of the appeal, be allowed to argue that the case does not involve such
question.
(5) The High Court may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, hear the appeal on any other
substantial question of law not formulated by it, if it is satisfied that the case involves such question.
(6) The High Court shall decide the question of law so formulated and deliver such judgment thereon
containing the grounds on which such decision is founded and may award such cost as it deems fit.
(7) The High Court may determine any issue, which---
(a) has not been determined by the Appellate Tribunal; or
(b) has been wrongly determined by the Appellate Tribunal, by reason of a decision on such
question of law referred to in sub-section (4).
(8) Where an appeal has been filed before the High Court, it shall be heard by a Bench of not less
than two Judges of the High Court, and shall be decided in accordance with the opinion of such Judges
or of the majority, if any, of such Judges.
(9) Where the High Court delivers a judgment in an appeal filed before it under this section, effect
shall be given to such judgment by either side on the basis of a certified copy of the judgment.
(10) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5
of 1908), relating to appeals to the High Court shall, as far as may be, apply in the case of appeals under
this section.
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